Need some advice for silver gift for my kids this christmas

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since i posted and hope everyone is doing well. Most of the silver bullion I own will be sold one day hopefully for a profit. All the mint sets I am buying every year will be given to my kids when they get older and they know that. They are 6 and 3.

They get so excited and love looking at the silver when I open the safe. I want them to be able tomhold something and really want to get them around $150 or so worth of silver for Christmas that they can hold in their own safe.

Any thoughts? I was thinking of getting each of them one 5 oz atb (bullion) sheerly because of the size. If I do that whichnone would be the best or most popular?

Any other suggestions?

 

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regarding best or most popular... i think you should just get them whichever one you think THEY individually will like the most. For example i think the Gettysburg one is "the coolest". I have no idea regarding the "most popular" as i'm not 'into' the ATB pucks.. If they weren't Giant Quarters i'd like them more. Obviously just my opinion. HOWEVER i also believe they are a good choice to give to a 6 and 3 year old. They don't have numismatic value (yet anyways) and they are big and fun to hold.

It sounds like everything you collect is US coinage, but you might want to look at some of the offerings from the Perth Mint. You could get them 2012 DRAGON Lunars (which WILL appreciate in value..), Kookaburra's or Koala's
or some Cool commemorative coins in cool boxes (Dinosaurs, Spartan Warriors, Famous Ships, Deadly Animals, ??? )
... And you can get those almost all the dragons kooks and koalas in any size you want to buy them!

my .02

 

You can get them a $150 worth of 1-oz silver art bars for Christmas. Silver art bars have various different artwork showing things such as cars or airplanes and other various themes. There are silver art bars that have trains on them. There are also some that have holiday themes to them that your kids might like. If there is a local coin shop in your area that sells 1-oz .999 generic silver, then you can take your kids to the local coin shop and let them pick out what silver art bars might interest them. The reason that I mentioned giving them 1-oz silver art bars for Christmas because the artwork on them might attract them to that particular type of silver.

This is just an idea. Good luck to whatever type of silver you decide to give to your kids on Christmas.

 

:thumb:Xmas gift anyone would like!!!!
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& @ the link below

 

here is some they may like

 

If you are going to do the ATB pucks, I would do 1 with an animal on it, as it would be something the kids could relate to better. These would be the: Yellowstone, Glacier and Olympic. Also, I would consider the Canada Wildlife Series 1-ounce silver Timber Wolf, Grizzly Bear and/or Cougar. Finally, a perennial favorite for cuteness is the China Panda 1-ounce silver coin.

 

Low mintage both MS&PR mintage's are less than 80k
also at jellomart too PR-69DCam Pcgs graded too!

 

With that money you could buy 2 shares of Exxon common stock or a couple of video games that would be far better for investment and entertainment. When I was 3 I wanted a truck. When I was 6 I wanted a baseball mitt. I'm not sure silver is an age-appropriate gift for that dollar amount.

 

Little expensive but Canadian mint has this nice coin:
http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/20-fine-silver-coin-christmas-tree-2011-prod1140009?o_action=crossSell

 

+1. This is probably the best advice I have seen on this forum in a while. My kids are 9 and 6. Like the OP, I collect with the intention of handing my collection over to them someday. However, I buy them what they want and what is appropriate for their age. Kids like things they can use/enjoy as opposed to things they can look at even if it is valuable. My kids like to roll search with me and that gives us lots of pleasure. When they see my gold/silver, they like it but do not want to play with it...they will someday though. My advice FWIW: Buy them toys they will appreciate now, and with any extra money buy them what you think might appreciate over time. :smile TC

 

Thanks guys for the input!

Let me clarify this is not replacing any toys at all and we never give our kids clothes for Christmas. Believe me this is outside of what they are getting. I think we have spent about $550 on each of them so far and again this is something for them to hold on their own.

What I think I may do is get each on of them 2 one ounce rounds each. Maybe a kookaburra and apmexngeneric? The pandas just have to much of a premium

 

Interesting gift idea for such young children. I was not that good of a kid I guess, for I know I would have lost such a gift by putting it into one of my doll purses!

What a very different world today. By the way you said these would be going into their own safe? Do you have the safe for them?

 

While there may be a small chance you are biased in this regard I am not and also agree that silver art bars woud make an excellent Christmas gift for a youngster. Especially that Coca-Cola bar with Santa Claus that you have posted over in the "Post Your Bullion" thread, or something with a baseball player on it. The only drawback is they are hard to find, and might be tough to get in time for the holidays.

When I was a child my Great Aunt used to leave Eisenhower dollar coins in the plastic eggs we'd find in the Easter egg hunts. I especially love this design, because the Eagle on the back is on the moon. I really enjoyed the other Eisenhower dollar design with the Liberty Bell too, which is also on Franklin halves. The nice thing about junk silver is you can get a lot more coins as compared to one 5 oz puck, and there's still a lot of it out there in good condition without outrageous premiums if you avoid the low mintage years.

P.S. Eisenhowers are 40% silver or clad (0%) depending on the year. Make sure you know what you're getting and that you'd be comfortable with not having 90% or 999 fine bullion. If your goal is to have an investment for your kids then maybe bullion or 90% junk silver would be better, but I think the moon design is very awe inspiring and something a kid would like.

 

my kids are older and some of the gifts I'm giving my kids are coins and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for me.

 

thanks santa

 

The drawback that you mentioned is true since a lot of the ones that I found are hard to find and it took me a while to find them. A person could find one on ebay but the drawback to the ebay option is that a person will end up paying a collector's premium for it instead of a .999 generic silver premium that a local coin dealer would normally charge.

 

While these are all good suggestions, none are correct. Kids don't want a silver hockey puck and they don't want one or two generic rounds ...kids like bulk.

The best thing you can give them are a couple of rolls of merc dimes (junk silver). How are they going to learn to become little stackers with a single coin? ..Answer: they aren't. Give them something to stack.

Better yet buy a bag of mercs from Apmex and hand out a dime here and there when they over achieve (if this ever happens) or do thier chores. This way, they can watch their stack grow and learn to save.

Make little hoarders out of them NOW.

 

The ATB pucks are awesome and I would be psyched to get one as a gift. But I think since they are younger they might like a lot of smaller coins...like a few Morgans or peace dollars and then a bunch of junk u.s. silver. That's just my opinion.