Here you go - I recruited some new collectors

TommyB · February 23, 2006 11:32AM

I hosted a cub scout den meeting tonight. All the kids started a Lincoln collection. They loved it.

mozeppa · February 23, 2006 11:34AM

thats an 11 on the coolness meter!

1960NYGiants · February 23, 2006 11:35AM

Kudos to you! Well done.

Gene

quarterjack · February 23, 2006 11:35AM

Very Cool!

The future numismatic headline makers.

Dave

RYK · February 23, 2006 11:35AM

Excellent!

Freak1c · February 23, 2006 11:35AM

Now this is the best thing I have seen all day.

Freak

RickMilauskas · February 23, 2006 11:35AM

That's so cool!

Good for you.

We're going to have to try that at our coin meeting coming up later this year.

TayTay · February 23, 2006 11:36AM

<< <i>thats an 11 on the coolness meter!

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chabot510 · February 23, 2006 11:37AM

how many key dates have you peppered in there?

bgrice · February 23, 2006 11:38AM

That is a great project for the scouts to take on. If you are looking for any *searched* hords(teens to fifties) to let them go through and fill some spots I'll donate my hord.

JZrarities · February 23, 2006 11:38AM

THANKS from the whole community - you did a Good Thing....

dpoole · February 23, 2006 11:38AM

Neat picture, too!

That takes us all back, doesn't it?

coinman420 · February 23, 2006 11:39AM

GOOD JOB!!! FUTURE COLLECTERS!!!

Coindexter · February 23, 2006 11:45AM

That picture just makes me feel good. Nice work!

Smitty79 · February 23, 2006 11:57AM

That's awesome, WTG.

TommyType · February 23, 2006 12:07PM

I remember how much I loved my Cub Scout uniform as a kid!

I wish we had done a coin collection rather than build bird houses out of popcicle sticks. (It's kinda hard to turn that into a life long hobby).

Cladiator · February 23, 2006 12:25PM

that was a seriously cool thing to do.

BlindedByEgo · February 23, 2006 12:38PM

<< <i>that was a seriously cool thing to do. >>

The "feel good" post of the day! Too cool.

50cents · February 23, 2006 12:48PM

Very well done

Touchdown · February 23, 2006 1:02PM

Great idea!

PerryHall · February 23, 2006 8:31PM

You give them a few free coins until they're addicted and then..............

xbob · February 23, 2006 8:41PM

Looks like they're having fun!!

The girl scouts should try this too. Very few females seem to be into this hobby.

busco69 · February 23, 2006 10:03PM

That was a great thing for you to do I'm sure they had fun,good job.

DMWJR · February 23, 2006 10:05PM

Awesome! I've got a bunch of old Whitmans and circulated wheat cents that I will send to people who want to do the same thing with kids. Just PM me with details of what you need.

mhammerman · February 23, 2006 10:10PM

Excellent project. Good job, Tommy!

coinlieutenant · February 23, 2006 10:17PM

What a great post...very cool of you Tommy.

J

JRocco · February 23, 2006 10:20PM

Hey TommyB, that is exactly how I started so so many years ago. A Whitman penny board and a dishful of Lincolns I was allowed to look thru after a grownup cardgame.
Way to go and if we all light that spark in just 1 kid.....

zeus135 · February 23, 2006 10:26PM

That's great Tommy....... very nice to see.

Shamika · February 23, 2006 11:26PM

Tommy,

Did you "plant" any wheaties?

coinnut86 · February 23, 2006 11:30PM

I just got my older brother back into collecting

Merc · February 23, 2006 11:33PM

Hey, that is great. You gave them an early start. The Boy and Girl Scouts both have coin collecting merit badges. The Central Florida Coin Club gives a coin seminar to the scouts at their show and reviews their projects.