Merit Badge In Numismatics

I wonder how many of you guys could meet the Boy Scouts requirements for earning a merit badge in coin collecting. Go here and see: http://usscouts.org/mb/mb035.html

 

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#9 would be hard to do, since my son is convinced that I was born in 1776!

Collect a date set of a single type since the year of your birth.

 

Earned that one when I was a scout back in the day.

This is a new requirement: "Describe the 1999-2008 50 State Quarters Program. Collect and show your counselor five different quarters you have acquired from circulation"

 

I could probably do most of them.


I've no idea who are on the US bills though, wouldn't take me 2min to google it though.

 

I actually did coin collecting as my project for my Hobbies Badge when I was in the Cub Scouts over here in New Zealand back in 1988.I was a Six Leader the whole time I was in the Cub Scouts.

Aidan.

 

3,4, & 5 in the new requirements could, I'm sure, stir quite a debate here. As could 2b and 3a & b on the old one.

 

Interesting. Before our son was in the local pack, I hadn't read Boys Life (the Boy Scouts magazine) since they had a Model Railroading page in it. I was never in the scouts but I read copies left in the barber shop. It seems that neither trains nor coins makes the cut anymore, not if you're selling lots of video games to the BSA populace.

 

That's a shame, umtrr. I haven't seen a copy of Boy's Life in years, but what you described is the world we're living in today. Well, we still have our old coins, which stay the same no matter what.--gunsmoke

 

Here's a link that will be of interest to both U.S. & non-U.S. members alike; www.scout.org .

Aidan.

 

What have banknotes got to do with coin collecting?? and they have to do all that just for a badge!!!

De Orc :bow:

 

Coin collecting merit badge was the only badge I earned in 5 years of Scouting.

The requirements have changed a lot. I remember having to know the names of US coin designers and there was nothing about paper money involved at all.

I should find that badge and get it slabbed.

 

Thanks to Participants

I appreciate the posts of all of you on the subject of Boy Scout numismatic requirements. To tell you the truth, I couldn't come close to meeting them. But that doesn't bother me. I'm not trying to become an expert in such varied aspects of the hobby. I don't put the idea down for anybody else, though, and I would deeply respect anybody who could pass the Boy Scouts test.

In any event, thanks to all of you who participated. I enjoyed reading your responses and I appreciate you! gunsmoke

 

As a Eagle Scout & Assistant Scout Master I have & have tested for the Badge the requirments have changed a few years back, On the link above there is a link to see the OLD requirments that were much easier.

 

With just a bit of research, I think I could qualify for the badge. I even collect Boy Scout exonumia and have a reference book on the subject.

 

Notaphily.

Steve,notaphily is as relevant to coin collecting is traders' tokens & postal orders are.They're all branches of numismatics anyway.

Aidan.

 

Nope Aiden they are forms of Money collecting not Coins LOL

De Orc :kewl:

 

Steve,coin collecting is a branch of numismatics,as is banknote,traders' token,& postal order collecting.Therefore,they are all related,in my view.

Aidan.

 

This term numismatics seems to have evolved.

In Websters it says...Of coins. The study of coins and madels.

Dictionary.com says.....the study or collecting of coins, medals, paper money, etc.


So it would seem to be one of those words that has evolved into something that it was not intended to be.