dimedude1

My daughter is starting to get a nice, gradual liking to coin collecting. I bought her a Wittman lincoln cent 1975 to present album to compliment her 1941 to 1974 album. She has the 1975 to present album almost full, which is pretty cool. She is also interested in the 50 state quarters.

I bought her a Coin Collecting for Kids book so she can collect different stuff. I am not pushing her intio this great hobby, but I see some genuine enthusiasm. There are some tough ones for kids to collect (for example, Walking LIberty Halves, Peace Dollars, etc.) in this book. I think she will have some fun collecting.

GDJMSP

Good for you Now, you wanna have one of the most memorable days of your life ? Take her to a coin show. You'll spend the entire day listening to - Dad ! Dad ! come look at this one !

And you'll smile a lot

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That's great. I hope she's found a life long love of the hobby.

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De Orc

It is great when a YN gets involved in the Hobby

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jazzcoins

When i was a kid i started on the lincoln series, because you could get alot of the wheaties in circulation then.I think you are doing the rightr thing starting your child on the state hood quarter series . Well If i had a young child that's the series. I would start my kid on. it's the most popular for the kids ,I would say and a learning tool at that.
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jello

My grandmother would bring roll home for me to got thur.
she new it would keep me off the street & out of trouble back then!

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Magman

because that's all they minted back then



sorry I had to.

dimedude1

She is now has been going to coin shows since she was 10 months! She is usually bored, but she started liking it at this past show. Of course, she will enjoy in one hour or 1.5 hours doses.

I think when she gets this gift, she may get excited.

Harryj

My daughter loves this page from the us mint. She just finished her state quarter collection!!!

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/

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dimedude1

Good point, but since she had a partially filled 1941 to 1974 whitman folder, I thought it was appropriate to get her the 1975 and beyond folder. Also, she can understand order of dates and mint marks and when to know a coin looks pretty. She's six

But with Coin Collecting for Kids as a Christmas gift, she can collect the quarters and other stuff. That will be the next step. I will fill the Peace Dollars slots for her to make it a little special.

acanthite

My daughter is also addicted to that site, great fun.

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randygeki

I gave both my nephews a roll of half dollars and an assortmant of dollar coins and said they could spend it or start a collection. they saved some and spent some

umtrr-author

Our daughter Thalia Elizabeth and I completed a 20th Century Type Set for her-- nothing fancy and in a Whitman Folder. I'd recommend that as a next step as well.

And a coin show fits right into that as there will be plenty of opportunities to pick out a reasonably nice, reasonably priced example of each coin. You don't have to fill the entire folder at one coin show, either.

Thalia Elizabeth also collects "anything with Queen Elizabeth" as I've noted before-- with almost unlimited possibilities there most of which are very inexpensive. This turned out to be a very interesting adventure! I've posted my story about this before but in case you haven't seen it here's the link again:
http://www.irwinsjournal.com/ijonline/ijqueen.htm

It's been a lot of fun working with Thalia on her collection and we have a chance to have some quality time together. She's also learning about the world and I think it's helping her with her schoolwork as well-- I can guarantee that she knows how to make change, once she looks at the coins first!

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mrbrklyn

that really is great..

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dimedude1

That is awesome! Good to hear these stories, and thanks for sharing. We need this for the hobby.

As for my daughter, we are about to finish the 1975 to present Lincoln cent collection. We have gone through thousands of cents. We need 2 to complete this - a 1982 P zinc small date, and, can you believe it - a 2008 P!!!

We also found a 1939, and this did not fit in the 1941 to 1974 album. So we added it as a spare in the 1975 to present. She identified this as an old coin.

I can't wait to take her to a show, after she gets the Coin Collecting for Kids album. I want to make this gift special.