Coin show exhibit ideas

How about doing a display on how coins are graded? You could have examples of a certain coin in G, VG, F, EX, AU, MS, and explain how a coin is categorized.

 

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I like all the ideas mentioned. But, for such a large show, I have to wonder how many others will be showing pretty much the same things. Find a unique nich that perhaps many others don't know about...or at least often think about. Personally, I like Civil War tokens. Not technically "coins" as in minted by the US Mint, but they did circulate and trade for monetary purposes, so I can't see that it wouldn't count. They are cheap to buy in mostly excellent conditions, and the variety is staggering. I don't think anyone even knows for sure how many were made. It would be something interesting, historical, and probably mostly unique to the show.

Just my thoughts. Good luck!
Guy~

 

OK, I've slashed the buffalo models one. Too much people, too little coins.

coleguy, neat idea, but tokens really ain't my thing, and I don't know much about them.

 

I thought of another one so here;s what I have so far:

cent errors
differnt types of PL morgans
comparing differnt types of proofs (no cameo to ultra deep cameo)

 

If I did the proof one shoudl I do a noncameo, cameo, deep cameo, ultra deep cameo set for cents through halves or should I have only one set of half dollars, becuase they are the biggest and easy to see. Even further, if I did one set should I do slabs assigned with the differnt cameo designations.

 

Liberty is a goddess, not a god.

2,500 years ago, the Greeks knew something we try to pretend isn't true :

Women have always been more free than men. It is men who need liberating - not women.

 

So how come you didn't finish what KISS means? Just kidding. No need for a YN to be told that. Speedy, those are some tuff conditions. Glad I'm not a kid, I'd fail for sure.
As to suggestions, lots of great ones alreay. Not sure how things are there, but at the coin shows around here, and I go to lots, having one table to be an attraction will not be easy. Even at smaller coin shows, people are basically looking for just one or two types of coins or currency or books, etc.
As noted already, error coins are really getting to be a big item and many books, web sites, magazines are starting to really note them. And you do not have to be rich to have some, have photos of some, borrow some, have books on them. A display of some, explanations of how they happen, both post and pre Mint types, etc. I don't think to many would have such a topic at that show but not aware of that show, so who knows.

 

They sure are---I don't know who at the FUN board helped write up that for rules...but oh wel....

Speedy

 

Maybe that's only for the normal categories, not the YNs.

Also, I think I'm going to do the proof one.

 

I'm going to do three examples for each denomination Should I use the same date for all of them?

 

I would think that you should. Consistant may or may not be important, but it sure would help I would think. However, that kind of depends on the dates to begin with. Not all coins have the same denominations in different years in proof sets. You may want to note that somehow and why.

 

What years have all different cameos availialable at a afforadable price?

 

OK, I don't know about the judges, but here's an idea that will definitely be of use to YNs.

Do an exhibit on searching coins from circulation.

This should be attractive to YNs as they don't have a lot of money and this is the cheapest way to build a collection.
Getting books like the cherrypickers guide helps them find the valuable coins that they can either add to their collection, or sell to finance the coins they won't find from circulation.
Searching coins from circulation can produce some real beauties at face value.
Technique would involve buying coins from one bank and returning to another (preferably two that are very close and use a different cash handling company).
While the YN can't buy say $2000 at once, they can buy $200 a day, each day. Obviously the numbers will go up and down based on school commitments.

My display would consist of coins I personally have found from circulation such as

1912D Barber Half in VF to XF condition

Walking Liberty and Franklin Coin Books that are more than 50% filled.

Pre 1964 Roosevelt Dime Book that is about 33% filled.

Sample of Mercury Dimes and Buffalo Nickels that I've found

Proofs such as 1960 Franklin, 1964 Kennedy, 1962 Roosevelt, 1992 90%AG Kennedy, and some of the better examples of the Modern Jefferson Nickel and Kennedy Proofs.

Partial Collar Broadstrike Kennedys (I have about 4)

Strikethrough a small piece of copper Kennedys (I have about 6)

Strikethrough grease Kennedys (I have about 2)

Large sample of foreign coins that I have found both in rolls and left in the change counters.

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I could also display some of the older bank notes that I have found as a result of cashing in coins to go buy more.

I'm out of time, but if this is an idea that intrigues the OP, I can help expand it. I like it because it shows the YN that coin collecting can be affordable and within their reach. Looking at this many coins also has the benefit of helping the YN know the coin inside out which helps with grading skills.

 

I forgot the big one. Selling silver kennedy halves to increase the amount of coins the YN can go through at once.

 

gibberish!

 

Here's an interesting thought :

Jared Diamond is a UCLA physiology professor and author of the widely acclaimed bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," in which he writes:

"Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population. The most populous and highly organized native societies of North America, the Mississippian chiefdoms, disappeared in that way between 1492 and the late 1600's, even before Europeans themselves made their first settlement on the Mississippi River (page 78)....

"The main killers were Old World germs to which Indians had never been exposed, and against which they therefore had neither immune nor genetic resistance. Smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus rank top among the killers." (page 212).

"As for the most advanced native societies of North America, those of the U.S. Southeast and the Mississippi River system, their destruction was accomplished largely by germs alone, introduced by early European explorers and advancing ahead of them" p374

A book well worth reading. It might give some insight into the question posed by Invictus above.

It certainly strikes hard at the "blame America for everything" crowd.

This is a complex topic.

 

No.

 

OK, start a new thread explaining the gender biases of "being free."

 

An exhibit that I would take some time to look at would be one about toning. Get into the science of how it takes place, present NT and AT coins and have materials that explain the difference. Things like that.