New generation of collectors!!!!!
julie43
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I was visiting with my cousin today and she has 3 wonderful children ages 8, 6 and an adorable 2 year old. I brought over some of my Morgans to share with her but the ones that were most interested were the children!! They looked at every coin with amazement and asked me questions for hours even the 2 year old was mesmerized. Long story short I gave each child a very nice Morgan and now they want to spend their allowances to collect coins
My cousin was so happy that her kids were interested in something besides video games ( which she doesn't let them play much) It really was a great day!!!!!!!
My cousin was so happy that her kids were interested in something besides video games ( which she doesn't let them play much) It really was a great day!!!!!!! 0
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Congrats on your success with the young ones!!
I've been at this going on 52 years now.
I'm a 64 year old widower.
Ray
Good Job!
The name is LEE!
<< <i>Your spreading our disease Julie!
Good Job! >>
You better believe it Lee! You have to strike while the iron is hot, I was afraid kids would never get into this anymore with all the electronic devises out there
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Five years ago, I started my then seven year old. He chose the Kennedy series. Now he is raiding my collection for varieties and eyeing my “Early Comm”
Link to one of his sets in the Registry
<< <i>Be careful what you start
Five years ago, I started my then seven year old. He chose the Kennedy series. Now he is raiding my collection for varieties and eyeing my “Early Comm”
Link to one of his sets in the Registry >>
Very impressive set especially for a 12 year old
Way to go................Education is the Key to keeping it alive
Alan
<< <i>Be careful what you start
Five years ago, I started my then seven year old. He chose the Kennedy series. Now he is raiding my collection for varieties and eyeing my “Early Comm”
Link to one of his sets in the Registry >>
Ditto my oldest grandson.
He's 13 now, visits the Mint, devours his Numimismatist, saves his allowance for type coins..... Oh, he also has a better eye than I do so I imagine he'll save me some money one day.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
One commented “This is interesting!”
I asked if they’d like some coin books to collect their own coins and of course they said yes; we left with two sets of Whitman folders for current nickels and pennies. Now, about once a month, I supply a new roll of pennies and nickels for each of them and they spend an hour or so looking at dates to fill out their first books and exchanging the coins they don’t need with the other. Grandpa gets all the left over’s except coins that date farther back than their books – coins for their next round of books.
They were very surprised last visit when I showed them the state quarter books I had been working on for them. Twin collectors!
Perhaps Mom can even use it as an incentive system.
Best of luck.
...she says, as she taps enthusiastically on her wireless laptop.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
<< <i>I was afraid kids would never get into this anymore with all the electronic devices out there
...she says, as she taps enthusiastically on her wireless laptop.
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<< <i>I was visiting with my cousin today and she has 3 wonderful children ages 8, 6 and an adorable 2 year old. I brought over some of my Morgans to share with her but the ones that were most interested were the children!! They looked at every coin with amazement and asked me questions for hours even the 2 year old was mesmerized. Long story short I gave each child a very nice Morgan and now they want to spend their allowances to collect coins
Just a thought; I turned a bunch of older stamp collectors into numistmatists with the help of another coin collector.
Back in the 1950s, stamps were the thing. I joined a stamp and coin club 7 miles from home.
There was only one other coin collector in it. Together, we talked up the coming boom in coins.
Within a year, everyone there were collecting coins and leaving their stamp albums at home.
I still don't know what really made them change so fast.
Maybe the other coin guy and I did have some hand in it.
Edited to add: When I was 7, I was watching my 12 YO brother work on his stamp collection.
He said to me; why don't you try to get a penny from every year?
That's all it took. Shortly after I started, I noticed the MM and changed to year AND MM.
JT
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
bob
<< <i>I've been trying to get my 5 year old into coins for the past 28 years. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
bob