coin collecting for kids

Today i recieved a package for my son in the mail from Dennis06
Thank you for it, i will give them to him when he gets home from school.

I must admit i have taken 5 coins out for myself

The Eisenhower Dollar, the liberty Nickel and 3 wheats went in my own collection



I am sure he will be very happy with them.
I will let you know what his reaction was


Thanks again

 

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im sure he will luv them

 

I fondle all of my coins too, call me a big kid!

 

As expected, he was verry happy with them.
I did not gave them all yet (so i have some to give him later to )

First thing daddy could do was move over and give him room.
I told him that he may choose, or collect them in a box (without putting them in 2x2's) or to collect them in 2x2's and put them in a folder for 2x2's

"I want to do it like you, and they must be placed in the cartons with the windowss" (thats how he calls the 2x2's)
He is only 6 but it looks like he is going to take it setious to collect them

So i put him to work, and "with a little help from me) he placed them all in 2x2's.






And after writing down the dates, and from what country they are (i also helped him to figure that out) he puted them in a folder.
And now he is on the sofa, with the folder in his hands and studying them


Thx again Dennis, you made him very happy

 

Ahhhhhh! That is so cute! This is going to be something he is going to treasure for years to come! Good move on your part.

And way to go, Dennis!:thumb:

 

You're very welcome! Thanks for sharing the pics of him enjoying them:thumb:. Oh yea, now you owe him 5 coins!

 

i know

I will gert him 10 in replacement

 

Always good to start them young. And now you can enjoy the hobby together.

 

How smart can a 6 year old be?
aparently smart :d

today he came from school, and he asked me if i had some more coins for him.

As stated previously, i did not give him all the coins together but i kept some behind.
He was misbehaving so i told him i didnt.

"But dad, then why are you keeping that envelope in the drawer with my name on it. i know there are coins in it..."

 

I'm not familiar with your coinage. But basically, get a folder for some small circulated change set. Then buy a big lot of that change. Set him up building his OWN collection. Your son will learn so much from this, more than number (date) recognition. He can learn to sort them into groups of the same date and choose the best coin for his set. The responsibility of putting his coins away. I mean they are his, so he should learn that pretty quickly. Let him handle the coins. His small motor skills are still developing, so he is gonna make mistakes.

If you cannot find a book for the set you want to start him on. Get a 3 ring binder and a few vinyl pages for holding the 2x2 flips. Then (I use a dymo label maker) label each flip and put it in the page. In short, you have created your own display for whatever set you have chosen. Get your son to help do it. Maybe start out with a few flips marked and have him add as he finds coins you don;t have the flips marked for. You will have to help him of course. But what better way to spend some time together participating in a project ?

Just remember, let him do everything he wants to on his set. That includes marking the flips, whatever. It's HIS. You help when asked but let him have room to learn on his own.

 

he is doing good.
He has 44 coins now from all over the world.

I let him do with it what he wants, and i let him place then in the 2x2's himself (as you can see the way they are stapeled )
I have about 20 more coins put aside for him, and het gets some of them every day. (it is mostly the first thing he asks when he gets from school, "dad, are there some new coins for me?")

At the moment he does not realy sort them by date or country, but when he wil get older and can read a bit i will try to make him do that, but as said before, i let him do with them what ever he wants to do with them.
Think that is the best way for him to learn.

his coins so far:

 

My oldest (son - almost 5) has gotten into collecting "like my daddy". We went to a coin shop recently and bought a Lincoln folder (1941-1974), a late series State's quarter folder and I gave him an extra Buffalo nickel folder I had around.

I am just letting him fill in the holes as he wishes right now, and I give him extras from my hoard (common wheats, per-60 Jeffersons, etc). We went to another coin shop yesterday for my birthday and I picked a nice 1935-s Peace dollar and he got a 1938-d Buffalo for his collection. He was very excited.

I hope he continues his interest into the future which I will certainly foster. I was the the first serious coin collector in my family, but I wish my father had been one - since he grewup in the 1950s and was in his mid-20s during the silver/clad switch in 1965. He probably could have had a decent collection.