My son wanted me to share.......
Brutalfly
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I got home from work today and was talking with my oldest son (8 yrs old) and he asked me if I could take a picture of some coins and share them with you guys. I told him I would, so here they are.
Once he finished the State Quarters he wanted to just get an original 13 colonies set so he would have 2 different types of sets. He was excited once he completed it. He also just wanted to share some quarters he had in his personal collection. He has searched for extras of these pretty hard and finally got them. 
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Nice set he has there.
I enjoy building sets too.
Nice coins!
nice set, you should get him a Whitman or similar album
Must be fun to have him so into his collection!
Looks like you might have a budding YN on your hands.
It's the thrill of the hunt, I tell ya!. Then you sit back and admire what you accomplished.
I am very impressed.
Pete
Excellent work....beautiful quarters! Something to be very proud of.
I hereby give this post an A+.
Dave
One of the nicest threads I've read here in a while. Thanks for sharing. Great things are happening here.
That's just great. Don't we remember pure childhood numismatic interests and pursuits like that?
Give him a hug for us.
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Great experience for a Father and Son in collecting.
Very cool!
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Lucky kid... circulating coIns were soooooo boring in the 80s when I was collecting!
A hug is in order. Nice work!
That is great! How old is he?
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
It looks like he has worked pretty hard in putting these sets together. That's great !
Nice looking coins too !
Great collection for an 8 year old. It must be a great feeling sharing your hobby with your son.
Tell him nice job!!!
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He'll remember these early collecting days for the rest of his life. I'm 71 and remember being 8 and searching for coins in change and at the bank.
bob
Congratulations to your son!!! Fun coins.
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You’ll have soooo much fun with your son. I had fun with my father, I’ve had fun with my son. Now I’m having fun with my grandson . It’s a GREAT hobby
I like seeing your sons coins along with the enthusiasm he has for his collection.
Carry on
Very nice... and what a great way to enjoy with your son.
My son wanted to say thank you for the kind words about his collection and he has liked reading the comments.
He has enjoyed it.
Actually both of my boys got me into the hobby. I saw how much he enjoyed collecting the state quarters and I immediately thought that this could be something we could do together with more of the emphasis being put on him and his brother and their collections. I have some coins in a little collection of mine but they have far more than I do. I made some copies of some sheets that had lists of their quarters, pennies, and nickels on them and put it into a binding for them so they could highlight which ones they had.
Looks like coin collecting runs in your family Joe. Nobody else in my family gives a hoot.
Good fun!
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Way Cool!
Great collection! It must be a lot of fun to collect together.
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That is the true epitome of collecting. Very cool!
Nicely done!
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Awesome to see he has a collection of quarters he likes. I think the Whitman folder books are a great starting tool for young kids. My shop sells them for $3 each if ya need them let me know.
Later, Paul.
Nice collection. If he's still searching he may be intrigued to know that a few of the quarters had errors. Probably scarce in circulation but you never know.
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Awesome, wish my kids had the same passion as me.
Great collection
That's awesome. I love his enthusiasm and I think it's great that you're sharing time together with this great Hobby. Nice collection!
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That is wonderful
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Nice job and a great idea for a set.
Jim
Nice!
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That is great.... It is a really fun hobby to enjoy with your sons...and their collections are also learning experiences for them - and you. Please keep posting their collections as they progress. Have you taken them to a coin show yet?? Cheers, RickO
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Kind regards,
George
way cool and a great start to something wonderful
Very Nice !!!
I love the idea of the 13 Colonies Set !!!
What a blessing to have just one person in the family to enjoy a hobby with. I will never know, as hard as I tried with mine.
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Very cool!!!!! Keep it up. I like the idea of 13 colonies set.
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Organized and thoughtful, great traits to carry forward. Hope he stays a collector. This hobby has helped keep me sane for the last 60+ years (most of the time).
It will be interesting to see what set he builds next! Maybe a membership in the ANA or a local club could help
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Very cool indeed!
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VERY COOL! Way to start out young!
Very nice!
Dare I say it but the state quarter series might have some benefit after all. If he collects by state he will learn the states, and maybe some fun historical facts along the way by learning about the designs. That 13 colony subset is a fantastic idea, and will teach him about the original colonies (I'll bet most kids his age don't even know what a colony is or that there were 13 of them). What the schools don't teach these days he will be learning on his own.
He will be a better rounded person and more knowledgeable than his peers. This will pay off huge dividends as he gets older.
Personally, I like searching nickels. There is not the same design variety as quarters, but there is more date variety to be found in nickels. When he gets just a bit older it might be fun to find different dates and name a major event that occurred in each year.
I have a few hobbies and every one of them opens doors to other areas of knowledge and interest.
There are also albums like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Littleton-State-Quarter-Display-Folder/dp/B001EL7WBY
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My son and I want to say thank you for all the comments about his set and other quarters. He has enjoyed reading all of the comments and kind words.
He thinks it would be neat if they came up with 13 colony quarter set. He asked me "What if it happened?" I told him it would be cool and that he should write to the mint about it when they get done with the state park quarters.
@JBK my wife and I are both public school teachers. We decided to have my wife stay home and home school. They did a unit on each of the 50 states and spent time learning things about each one. Now they are working on the colonies and the discovery of America.
@COCollector we got them a state quarter book that they filled pretty quick and now they are working on the state park book. It has been fun as they search our quarters, grandparents quarters.
Kids getting exited with coin collecting is .......exiting!
Good job Brutalfly, I hope he passes it on and on...and on.....