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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;adric22, post: 1607820, member: 38146&quot;]About 6 months ago I got the idea to start giving my 9-year old a silver coin each week along with her allowance.&nbsp; The silver is not to be spent, rather saved.&nbsp; I purposefully have not given her anything that has a face-value to it (such as junk silver, etc) because I&#039;d be worried she&#039;d wind up spending it at Wal-Mart or something like that.&nbsp; Most of what I&#039;ve given her has been generic 1/10 ounce silver bullion coins, which I&#039;ll typically buy 10 or so at a time and wind up paying $6 to $7 a piece.&nbsp; I try to get different designs to keep her somewhat interested.&nbsp; I was spending about $25 per month for this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem we ran into was when we adopted another child a few months ago.&nbsp; I suddenly found myself spending twice as much and the budget became very thin due to a variety of other new expenses that comes with a second child.&nbsp; So I had to scale back and started giving the kids 1-gram silver coins.&nbsp; Those cost me about $2.50 a piece, or roughly half what the 1/10 ounce coins cost.&nbsp; Even then, I&#039;m having a bit of difficulty fitting that into the budget, especially since my wife is complaining about it.&nbsp; So the last few weeks I&#039;ve just had to give them things out of my existing collection and I even went so low as to give them $1 esienhower coins and even some of those cheap copper bullion coins.&nbsp; Now to be honest, the kids don&#039;t even seem to notice the lowering of value as long as they look interesting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My original goal was that by the time my daughter became grown she&#039;d have a few thousand dollars in silver.&nbsp; But that is looking less likely after the cut back. </p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m writing here looking for ideas of what to give them.&nbsp; I need to stay within $2 per child for the time being.&nbsp; I can alternate and do $1 one week and maybe $2.50 the next week.&nbsp; So I can still fit a 1 gram silver coin in there every other week.&nbsp; What are best suggestions for a coin that is approx $1 that does not have any face value?&nbsp; Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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