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Help! In presenting to cub scouts
HandH
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Hello ladies and gents. I need help in presentations to cub scouts of coin collecting/presentation. My 6 year old is used to me and him viewing coins, however, none of his friends are exposed to coin collecting. I think my scholarly approaches would fall on deaf ears. Does anyone have an outline that has been successful in encouraging Cub Scout age kids to numismatics, it would be very, very appreciated. HandH. Thank you.
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Spring National Battlefield Coin Show is April 12-13, 2024 at the Eisenhower Hotel in Gettysburg, PA. WWW.AmericasCoinShows.com
Good luck.
Note: Some sort of game with Statehood quarters would be good also. Lay out a US map, let the Scouts draw blindly out of a sack, place the quarter they selected onto the map...learning squared.
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Some examples would include an inexpensive cob and any pirate story that you care to use. Kids like to see and handle a coin that might have been buried by Blackbeard.
I have a few ancient coins that you could tell stories of Caesar, Alexander, Cleopatra and Marc Anthony or even Jesus. Any old silver coin from before Christ could have been on the money changers table when Christ turned them over in the temple. The story of the widows mite always goes over well and as heckle of Tyre could have been one of the 30 pieces of silver given to Judas.
A Spanish colonial piece of eight could have been the one Washington shucked over the Delaware river. A 2 reale could have been on Thomas Jeffersons desk as he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
A Civil War era coin could have been a good luck piece in a soldiers pocket during Gettysburg.
You are only limited by your budget and imagination as to the coins and stories you can put together. The key to it is to let them handle raw coins that famous people from history could have handled. The connections through history in their hands will last a lot longer than a power point presentation without the artifacts to play with.
If you are someone who does not feel extremely comfortable speaking in front of a group just treat the scouts like they are your kids or grandkids and tell interesting stories. They will love it.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
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If you don't have time for it then maybe just give them the folders and have a contest to see who can get the most coins after a couple weeks.
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