Help for grandson new to coin collecting

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I have the latest Redbook on order. But thanks.

 

That's what I have on order for him.

 

Books are excellent, but do not eliminate the interaction that coin clubs can offer beginners. My son is now the president of the local club and talks , talks, talks
coins all the time. He learned more about Geography, History, computers, and life,
and I believe brought him into an active life from being very quiet and unsure of himself. I am truly happy of the result. Best wishes, Jim

 

Thanks. I'll look into that.

 

We just returned from a visit with the grandkids. When I showed my grandson the collection books I bought, he was super excited. He ran up to his room to get the quarters he already had so he could put them in the new albums.

Then I showed him the jar of quarters from my neighbor. He almost jumped out of his skin. He and his sister spent most of the day going through the coins and filling in his 3 albums. We had a hard time pulling them away for lunch.

He learned a little about US geography.

When he was done, he had all of the States quarters except for Oklahoma. I think he was missing 3 or 4 of the national parks coins.

Thanks for everyone here.

 

And we did a little math experiment. I had everyone guess how many quarters were in the Tupperware bowl. Then I got a scale, weighed a few of the quarters, and entered the weights into an Excel spreadsheet. I tried to post an image, but couldn't get it to work. This is the best I could do.

Number of Coins Weight Weight /100 Weight Each Estimated Count
1 6 g 600 g 6.000 g 299.17
2 11 g 550 g 5.500 g 326.36
3 17 g 567 g 5.667 g 316.76
5 27 g 540 g 5.400 g 332.41
10 57 g 570 g 5.700 g 314.91
15 86 g 573 g 5.733 g 313.08
20 113 g 565 g 5.650 g 317.70
25 142 g 568 g 5.680 g 316.02
30 171 g 570 g 5.700 g 314.91
50 285 g 570 g 5.700 g 314.91
75 427 g 569 g 5.693 g 315.28
100 569 g 569 g 5.690 g 315.47
Averages
567.61 g 5.676 g 316.42

I then weighted the entire bowl of coins. That was 1,795 grams. Dividing that by the average weight yielded 316.24. We then did an actual count, which came out to 316. And that was after the 126 coins that he had already placed in his albums.

This was a fun project. Thanks for the help.