Pennies, Pennies, and more Pennies
Brutalfly
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This past weekend was a busy weekend with pennies at my house.
We searched through all 3 of my kids piggy banks looking for all the years of pennies to see what they had.
Thank you to everyone here for your advice and help with other things it is all greatly appreciated!
They ended up having more years in their piggy banks than I thought they would.
My oldest wanted to make sure he had all the pennies and that all had to be from the Denver mint.
My youngest son just wanted to get the years.
Then my youngest child she just wanted to fill her spaces.
The picture of the pennies goes from oldest child on top to youngest child on bottom.
It was fun looking for each year with them because in the beginning it was easy to find the years then as the years got harder to find they would ask questions about why they were so hard to find.
Then they would make sure they had a good looking penny and if they found a better one they would replace it.
For me it was just nice to sit there with them and just be in their presence because I know time flies and they will get older and older.
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Looks like a bunch of fun. The experience will stick with them. Hope they continue to collect whatever it is they settle on.
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Always a great experience when you can get your children involved, no matter what the hobby.
Experiences like this are priceless and always put a smile on my face.
Thanks for sharing the experience with us.
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Looks like there was some very well spent time as a family unit.
Very cool. I do this with my kids, too. I bring home rolls from the bank, and occasionally get my local coin shop to put together small random bags of 40s-50s wheats to help them with some of the older dates.
I remember doing that with my kids when they were little. Fun times.
Very nice, Matt!
I remember doing this when I was little. Only I didn't have the boards, I just lined them up in chronological order and tried not to have any spaces!!!!! Then I bought a bag of nickels and tried with them. That's about as far as I got in the change line-up...but I did learn that the nickels with the big letters on the reverse were war time silver! Great job Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice. These are good times for young coin collectors. Lots to collect.
For example with Lincoln cents, with some searching, getting some rolls from the bank, etc, the memorial cents alone represent close to 60 years of coins that are still circulating. and occasionally ya find a "treasure" such as a wheatie.
Jefferson nickels still circulate from years longer ago than the Lincoln cents. And dimes and quarters of course circulate freely from 1965. That's an awful lot of coin collecting fun to be had.
@Brutalfly - are those Indian Heads in the upper left corners of at least two of the kids' boards? Your kids' piggy banks pay off pretty good
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Thanks for all the kind words guys. We appreciate them.
Anytime I get to spend quality time with the kids is the best part of my day. Means a lot to me.
They asked me what we would do when we finished the pennies. I told them to think about it and see what they wanted to do. I also mentioned something about Nickels.
@mvs7 - yes those are Indian Head. I planted one for each of them in a rolls of pennies that I got from the bank a while back. They were the first Indian Heads they ever got. They were super excited. Then I had They have since gotten more through a fellow board member.
Nice! Looks like fun...
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I do not mean to be an @$$ but those are cents, not pennies. Pennies are UK.
i wish them well in what they do with that. its a lot of fun
Great family time.
that looks great. Thank you for sharing.
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<<< I planted one for each of them >>>
Great idea.
My two cents advice...don't ever tell them ya did it...and probably one day as adults they'll figure it out and maybe ask you about it...deny it verbally along with giving them the biggest wink that you can.
Hey, Brutalfly, you and I have the same tile floor!!!!!! I put mine down all by my lonesome! Kitchen, hall way, and entry. Did a good job too. Your pennies are o.k. But......did you sneak into my house to take those pics? Just kidding. Nice floor!
Same color grout too. HOME DEPOT!
No. Correction! I just showed the beautiful Mrs. Hydrant your floor. She told me...."We didn't get our tiles at Home Depot. We bought them at COLOR TILE! " "One year same as cash!! " She's always right and she's cute too. Oh....is she ever! And smart. I never have to think, she does it for me. I love her. And I like your floor too!
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That is great.... putting cents in an album with the kids.... and each has their own album...Great idea of salting in a couple of Indians....Cheers, RickO
I'm convinced my dad salted the change jar, but then again when I was a kid, people were still giving me barbers and silver certs and 2x2's for my paper route.
I can't believe I remember my first war nickel so vividly. Dad was sitting in his chair (last time it would be on the right side of the living room), it was snowing outside but it was wet snow and it was melting off our giant window with the pit-pat, pit-pat adding comfort to a warm house on a cold new England day.
We still had the half-wall, my brother was wearing a Bart Simpson shirt and my father an In living Color. My brother did his sorting different. He would fly through them looking for the big ones first (key or denomination or error) and then go picking. I was always more meticulous and slower. There were a few 30s buffalo's and slickers that day, but when I saw that big giant P, my dad congratulated me and I remember his hug and smell, back when his hair and mustache were black and full, and he mussed up my hair and said he was proud of me.
One of the happiest days of my life, the 3 of us lounging with loupes and change jars and rolls and bank bags just talking coins and sharing finds.
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@Brutalfly .. let me know if you ever run low on wheats or steelies or copper.
...and haha, I found this yesterday while moving books.
We had just gotten a printer that didn't use dot matrix, and our "summer homework" was to write a 5 sentence or more letter to our father with the gift we gave him. When we entered the next grade with Mrs Howard, we had to read our letter to the class and talk about our FD gift.
I had always wanted to fill the Whitman album he gave me and give it back to him. It was old when he gave it to me. Man I was so young the folder alone cost a lot haha. I thought it would take until I was 10 years old! I'd be an old man by then!
School got out and I went gangbusters on filling that thing. All of my paper route money and days at grandparents houses going through coins. I bought (lol) my first rolls from the bank after finishing my paper route. A widow and widower asked me every day how I was doing and helped me out.
Five years old it took me so long, lol.
I'm so embarrassed to post this, but I know this is the only corner of the Internet that would appreciate it. My wife laughed when she read it ("in the cute way"). I did too haha.
He handed me this when I got my master's and told me to give it to my son, and he was as proud of me now as he was and I was more than he could ask for in a son. Man I could cry... almost kinda am lol, keep up the good work ladies and gents.
Wow what a heartwarming story. Great job filling that album.....lots of sweat and tears I bet. Now wasn't that fun? Looks great!!!!!!!!
As a pre-teen in the early '60's I filled most of the Whitman albums. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters...I couldn't afford bigger denominations. Dedication was always a struggle. I'd sometimes raid them to spend at the penny arcade or amusement rides. I lived near the ocean and a boardwalk.
I failed at the tasks but they lit a fire, and much later in life I sought to complete a penny album even though I had already acquired a PCGS set of near gem red wheaties. Strangely, the penny album meant more.
I love stories like those from @Brutalfly and @Azurescens. The older I get the more I remember my youth. My Lincolns Dansco, and a follow-on large cents one, are coins I keep nearby and never stress over their security. They are an arm's reach away to curious friends and family.
Lance.
OP, that's fabulous!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
When growing up in Racine, WI in the early '60's there were three or four of us kids trying to fill our Whitman albums - only pennies and nickels. Got the albums as handouts for Halloween - Whitman Publishing was located there.
But we were able to get the change out of the municipal parking meters in sewn bags. We had a blast trying to fill holes.
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I love stories like this.
If parents don't do this, where is the future of the hobby ?
That's a great idea of planting special coins into their search !
I want to thank everybody for their comments on this thread. I appreciate them all.
My kids mean the world to me and I would give up anything and/or do anything for them. Without them I don't know where I would be. They are truly amazing and I hope that our relationship stays great the rest of our lives.
I am hoping by coin collecting and them having their own collections it is something that we can do forever and always make time for. I had to plant a couple of things in their pennies/cents so they could find something cool. One of my sons as I planted the Indian Head Cent went looking through the bank roll and found 3 wheat pennies or maybe even 4. I was shocked. He was excited. My other son found 2 or 3 wheat pennies in his roll as well. It is funny to see them flip through everything as fast as they can and then go back and look at everything a 2nd and 3rd time.
@Azurescens - Thank you for sharing that story. I think it is great and it is the type of story that puts a smile on your face. It sounds like you have a great relationship with your dad. That is an awesome collection.
@lkeigwin - Thank you for sharing your story and your collection. The collection is awesome
I will be showing my kids both of your collections. I think they will appreciate them.