Need some ideas, Please!

I am glad you found some material. I don't know if this feedback helps or not. When I first encountered coin collecting, every single pundit and authority stressed that collecting was best represented by forming a matched set of coins. I was only seven, but I found that entire idea revolting and boring. To me that was the same as going to an art show called "The bridge" and finding out it was 87 pictures of the same bridge taken one second apart. For me it would be a better idea to have 87 pictures showing the bridge from shiny new ribbon cutting day then from all angles and at all different times and ending with the rusty
sagging bridge that has done its service.
That is why when everyone else was putting matching coins in their blue Lincoln cent holders I was trying to find a coin in every grade from parking lot trash to ultra red mint state. Perhaps just a different view on coin collecting that might appeal to some. James

 

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@samclemens3991 good points.

 

One could do so much with exonumia as it relates to coins.

 

Hey! Let's leave collector plates out of this! ...... I love young collectors and I envy you being able to make a presentation to young and hungry numismatists.... Young collectors do love any old coin they can get their hands on. I keep a basket of no-date buffalo nickels in my old show car to hand out to youngsters. Whatever the subject matter you land on, maybe sweeten the pot with something like that to win them over maybe?

 

One of my favorite exonumia / coin "rabbit holes" are contemporary counter strikes of numismatic materials.

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Already got that covered. I will have some surprise give-aways.

 

If you have access to a projector and a laptop with “Power Point,” you might consider downloading some of Jack D. Young’s photos of counterfeit coins in counterfeit slabs. I did that a few years ago, and it’s time to do it again. I just don’t have any venues these days.

 

Well, I did the talk. And I am not the best speaker by far. But at least this time, even though it seemed (and was) less 'prepared' I think I was a bit happier with not just reading off something I wrote. And I think a lot of the people enjoyed seeing some of the coins I took with me. I passed around the 2bu gold/silver Japanese coin I got from Lord Marcovan (part of the talk portion about collecting Japanese coins now) and my not quite complete set of Icelandic Kingdom coins (no proofs), as well as two Civil war tokens and 7 Middle Ages back to Philip I coin I have and a bracelet (holed coins) that my grandmother brought from Brazil to the US back in the mid 1920's when she emigrated here from there. They are Brazillian Rials from that time period. The bracelet no longer had any of the connectors (those went by the wayside in the late 60s by me) but I restrung them with thread to show how they did fit together.

I also handed out (free for the taking) some older Civil War Token journals, a bunch of relatively recent Thailand and Hong Kong coins I had, and I also gifted a brand new young numismatist at the show a book by Rulau on Hard Times Tokens. I simply asked that he read it and learn about them and maybe give an 'educational program' next year on it. I hope he does do that because if he does, our coin club will give him an ASE as well as others learning a bit about them as well as him exploring something he might not have picked on his own.