Truvia: Boy Scout Coin Collector's Merit Badge

You probably know about Boy Scouts accumulating Merit Badges which are given out for demonstrating some skills in a certain subject like Woodworking, Camping, Canoeing, etc., but did you know there is one for Coin Collecting?

Do you know the requirements for earning a Boy Scout Coin Collecting Merit Badge?

Click on the following link to find out about the Boy Scout's Coin Collecting Merit Badge:


http://www.boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/meritbadges/coincollecting.asp


Do you know enough about numismatics to earn a Boy Scout Merit Badge?


If you collect Exonumia you need a Boy Scout Coin Collecting Merit Badge. It would enhance your coin collection.

Hope you enjoyed this trivia,

Clinker

 

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Why is there a question about currency in the coin collecting merit badge questions?

"Identify the people depicted on the following denominations of current U.S. paper money: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100."

 

Another interesting and informative bit of information. Thank you for posting it.

Take Care
Ben

 

I wish they had that merit badge when I was a scout.

 

Another interesting tidbit , thanks clinker .
rzage

 

GREAT THREAD CLINKER!

We have a 14 year old "intern" at the coin shop I work at.

Guess what he's working on?

Yup! The merit badge and what better place for him to earn it!

clembo

 

I got mine when I was in Scouts 35 yrs. ago!!

 

Wow. Cool! If my kid could earn one of those I'd be very proud. I've covered 90% of that but not enough to earn the badge. Foreign coins haven't interested me yet. I'm foreign illiterate.

That's a lot of criteria. I think you'd be a long time waiting to find a Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea dollar in circulation. I've never been handed either in my life. Only place I've found them is at a bank or the change machine at work.

 

I got my merit badge too when I was 12. I can still remember going to the coin shop to buy a 1958 Franklin Half to complete the set. I then taped all my 1958 coins to a sheet of construction paper (I know, but they never mentioned tape damage in the handbook!) and put it into a display folder, which I still have to this day. Original tape and all.

 

When I got my badge, one of the requirements was to collect each denomination coin from the year of your birth. Guess they changed that one.

 

It's easier to join the SAS than get one of those badges it seems.

Tough questions and tasks.

 

Thats a seperate badge.

 

andycook

Good question....
Can anyone shed light on this requirement?

Is it because "scriptology" is a subcategiry of "Nunismatics" like "exonumia?"

Clinker

 

Bonedigger

Hi, Ben, and thanks,,,

Clinker

 

davdo

Still have the Badge?

Clinker

 

Vess1

I thought that too, but as I suspected, some Coin Talk members had earned one during their Boy Scout years...

Clinker

 

Yes, I do. I have all of my BSA badges along with other souviniers (sp.) that I collected when I was a Scout. I still have my birth year set that I put together to get the badge, too. Some of the coins aren't in very good shape, though!! lol.

 

rzage

Thank you for reading and commenting...

Clinker

 

davdo

Good for you!

Since my retirement, I've been collecting my Birthyear (1935) coins. I collect only silver, but all countries....

Clinker

 

For some of us, that set would be worth big money today !