Christmas & Coins
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Anyone try to give people coins as gifts at Christmas, to non-collectors? I did it last year with my new sister-in-law. She really appreciated getting something so different and meaningful, compared to the typical gift. I gave her a circulated colonial (New Jersey copper) and threw a little history lesson in with it.
Anyone else take the time to spread the joy of coins or impose our coiny greatness on others?
Anyone else take the time to spread the joy of coins or impose our coiny greatness on others?
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Startem' young, right!?
BTW, the George Washington commem half is one of US Mint products I got as a kid. It's very memorable because it's still not worth much from what I can tell
I gave this to a Mexican friend who was born in 1959, an it was a big hit.
And despite my negative outlook on coingifting, I am planning on doing it again this Christmas.
LOL ... but come on, that was a great idea, giving a coin minted on his birth from his country. I think I am going to steal that idea and use the coin's date to my advantage like you did ...
I just hope that He will take an intrest in coin collecting!
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<< <i>I gave this to a Mexican friend who was born in 1959, an it was a big hit. >>
Wow, that's a gorgeous coin! For people who completely are not into coins, I give darkside 1oz silver commem coins with interesting designs that they will connect with.
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<< <i><<And despite my negative outlook on coingifting, I am planning on doing it again this Christmas.>>
LOL ... but come on, that was a great idea, giving a coin minted on his birth from his country. I think I am going to steal that idea and use the coin's date to my advantage like you did ... >>
The birth year and country is a great idea! One of my favorite medals is a .999 silver Mardi Gras doubloon from my year of birth. Haven't thought about doing this for others but it's something worth looking into, if the theme is good.
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<< <i>Hi BH! 7 is pretty damn young to have a true liking I think ... hopefully over time, eh!? I have a 6 year old .. not quite ready yet. Too boring to him right now. They can't appreciate money, history, series, much of that yet..
Startem' young, right!? >>
I started collecting when I was 7. Nothing too out of my league, but I collected.
As for the gifts, I've never tried, but everyone likes money!
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<< <i>You're right about that!!! Hard not to like a gift of cool money. >>
Most everyone in my family (other than my mother) has some coin collecting in them. Having said that, there are definitely people I would not gift a coin to, because they don't have any interest. There have been people who I've shown parts of my collection to, and the look on their face is like, "You paid $50 for a dime??? It's a DIME!!" Some people are just immune to our addiction.
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I don't purchase anything for others.
No one I know likes coins, cept my father in law and he's getting out of the hobby.
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Bad things to buy are collector coins for non-collectors. They won't appreciate them and may dump them off at the local pawn shop.
<< <i>Anyone try to give people coins as gifts at Christmas, to non-collectors? >>
No, but I gave Wheaties in 2x2 holders to trick-or-treaters one year.
My ex-wife made me give 'em candy, too.
<< <i>I gave her a circulated colonial (New Jersey copper) and threw a little history lesson in with it. >>
I hope you weren't casting pearls before swine. That's a heck of a nice gift for a noncollector. Most noncollectors have what I call "magpie" tastes- they like their coins big n' flashy. ASE's are good gifts. On the slightly more expensive end, so are prooflike "1915" Austrian gold 4-ducat restrikes. Large and prooflike gold, big and flashy, but rather thin so they don't cost as much as a Saint or something and it's no foul if somebody makes it into a pendant. On a much cheaper gold note, the smaller 1-ducat version of the previously-mentioned coin is a good one, too.
Come to think of it, there are lots of bullion options in gold and silver, giftwise.
Or those little birthyear frames. Proof sets. Stuff like that.
Chances are, most numismatic gifts given to noncollectors will get shoved into a drawer and forgotten about, but held onto, so who knows- they might bear fruit a generation or two later, when the gift recipient's child or grandchild finds them.