YN visit this afternoon

Having no kids, I don’t have much chance to share with YNs
Today some friends brought their grandsons to visit. Damn, kids are smart nowadays.

 

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Great to see.

Did they get to take some goodies home?

 

I bet they had fun. I know my two oldest would love seeing all the cool things you have posted.

 

Had a couple Merc dimes 25 & 29 and a couple 1979s Proof Type 2 as gifts.
Being CRH kids, they really opened up when they saw my CRH 1984 doubled ear
And then the cud’s and clashes.
I have about 500 coins with me
The photo is me showing the clash marks on a dime
The 11 yo knew exactly what it was

 

That 1984 doubled ear....

 

What about a Henning nickel?I still need to find a doubled ear as well also any of the WAM's or CAM's.

 

Great to see!! I'm glad everyone had some fun!

 

84 doubled ear is my White Whale.
My birth year and one of the first varieties I ever learned about.

 

Looks like a great time!!!

 

I guess I always thought you were a bit older than you are. You've built up a nice body of knowledge for a young guy!

 

Get off my lawn!

 

Looks like my den when some of the grandkids show up. Too many boxes of stuff.

 

Say's a lot!

 

I don't know about any of you, but it gets my juices flowing when I see a youngster take interest in me showing them coins.

 

Gives you hope for the future, right?

 

Yep.

 

Great stuff!

I don't have kids, but have a nephew who is just old enough that he's getting interested.

He loved it when I brought over some mixed foreign coins as gifts for the kids, but I learned that when asked "what is this one worth," that "Nothing, it's from a country that doesn't exist anymore, but it's still neat" is not the answer he is looking for!

So the next visit, I brought a common circulated Morgan so he could have a coin that, in his eyes, is worth a fortune! He then surprised me by asking if it would be worth even more someday. I never thought that far ahead when I was little.

 

Hope they stick with it! I have a nephew that was briefly interested, but the XBox won that battle! Maybe he'll return to the hobby when he's older.

 

I love this!
I've been doing the same with all my nephews, nieces and cousins.
I just started my own thread about it!!