The 2010 Boy Scouts comm. coin.....

hey niko, yes i'm sure at least one will be given to my son at his eagle courts of honor. i know that i will also get one for our scout master..

 

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Scout mom I think a lot of us will be buying some extra coins to pass around , good idea & what a great way to say thanks to our Scout Leaders

 

http://coinlegislation.com/category/commemorative-coin-proposals/


this web site shows the coins being proposed

 

how many will you order

Mom's have been in scouting for a majority of Scouting's existence. Just ask anyone who has attended s Cub Scout Den meeting. If you have the ability to get an extra BSA $, send your former Den Mother one as partial payment for putting up with your antics way back when (1952 for me)

If the mint puts an order limit, I hope it will be at least two (two sons, two Eagle Scouts). If there is a single coin limit, in this case, I will have to break my self-imposed rule of only ordering the mint limit and have a friend get me the second one. I suspect that this coin will be a sell-out by the end of the second day, if not the first.

I did get my sons the 2007 UK 50p (100th Scouting Anniversary) in its presentation folder http://www.britishcoinshop.co.uk/product/17319/. The interesting thing is that the 2007 UK 50p was a circulating coin, but extremely hard to find in circulation (at least in London the fall semesters on 2007 and 2008).

 

Foreign Scout Commems

FYI, other countries that put out 100th anniversary coins in 2007 (when Lord Baden-Powell started the Scouting movement) were:

United Kingdom 50 Pence 2007 Scouting Centenary
This was a circulating :high5: coin, not just a limited edition commem.
Falkland Islands 1 Crown Scouting Commemorative
39mm copper-nickel showing Baden-Powell and a Boy Scout on reverse and the Queen on the obverse
Isle of Man 1 Crown Scouting Centenary
Portugal 5 Euro Scouting Centenary
Silver coin with Baden-Powell on one side and the Portuguese Arms and the Scouting logo on the other
Turkey 35 Yeni (35,000) Lira Scouting Centenary
Multi-colored 39mm sterling silver Proof. One side features the multi-colored logos of the Turkish Boy Scouts and Girl Guides while the other side pictures Scouts and Guides

 

I don't think there will be a limit on these.....but if it was I think it would be 5 of each.

 

Any idea when the Boy Scout Commemorative will be released? Thanks.

 

www.usmint.gov go to the commemorative page and it gives you all the info.

 

You have to love those commeorativ,es very nice!

 

You dont have to love them, I dont.

 

Another US commemorative that I will not buy.
I also do not like the design.

The last US commemorative silver dollar that I bought was the
2006 San Francisco Old Mint Commemorative
partly because I liked the design and partly because I live near San Francisco
and have visited the Old Mint a few times when it was open as a museum.

I also think that the US should do away with the dead president worship,
except for Millard Fillmore, who should be canonized.

 

Been there and I just don't see anything on when it will be for sale. Am I just missing it?

 

That's all right! Not to worry! This coin will sell out extremely fast, perhaps 1 or 2 days. I know of at least 40 that will be purchased by our local Boy Scout troop.

 

It says check back in FEB for the date.

 

I'm going to buy a couple. I agree with those who think a better design could have been found. . . but then I've thought that about most modern commemoratives---there's a real absence of artistic drama and energy: they just look computer generated and flat.

Why, with such a coin, can't there be high-relief designs and more figurative or allegorical imagery? A touch of idealism is a nice thing.

With the scouts, the subject would seem to call for this kind of art. Heck, Norman Rockwell's stuff looks like beautiful poetry compared to the design they picked.

 

The quote "teaching your men how to survive in very cold weather" is sexist.

I think it is very odd there is a female on the coin. As has been pointed out earlier, don't expect equal treatment, guys; when the girl scout coin comes out, don't expect a man on that one. Don't expect equal treatment.

 

There were no women in my Boy Scout troop (ca 1970+).

It's one thing for Mommie to be there with 9 year old Cub Scouts boys, another thing altogether with 13 and 14 year old young men. One can't be a momma's boy forever. The point of the Boy Scouts is take Momma's Boy out of the protected sphere of the women and move him into the exposed sphere of the men.

Far too many have taken the cowardly approach - the protected conformity of Political Correctness. Not I.

Our society is full of "Women Only - no men allowed" and no one says anything. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Boy Scouts being Men Only, and that's the way it should be.

 

It IS nice to have a boys-only organization. (I'm particularly upset the Order of the Arrow lets women in; I suppose I should go join the Red Hat Society and see what happens).

Scout moms can be very good scouters---or whiny women who clatch together and won't rough it. It just depends. The state of the American family (i.e., single moms and dual income families) kind of forces all youth organizations to change or see membership fall-offs.

But I have to admit it, it's nice to be able to be out camping and just take a pee on a tree without worrying about some woman seeing you. It's times like this that a well-trained possum watching lookout comes in handy.