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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1043091, member: 27043&quot;]My daughter&#039;s been hard at work on a State Quarter P/D set for over a year now.&nbsp; Like that idea a bunch...it provides more involvement, rather than just &quot;Here&#039;s some coins, don&#039;t take them out of that package.&quot; imo.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also, however, have taught a few financial lessons through &quot;coins&quot;.&nbsp; She&#039;s learned some basics of investing and saving through ASEs.&nbsp; Any time I&#039;m going to a coin shop, she&#039;s welcome to come along and purchase ASEs (or any other silver..her preference is for ASEs to date) with her own money.&nbsp; We then &quot;match&quot; her silver contributions at 33%.&nbsp; For every 3 oz of silver she buys, I buy one more.&nbsp; We call it her &quot;401D (for dad) Matching Plan&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not only has she learned some conservative savings habits already, but has learned how to watch markets, how to research trends, how to calculate returns on investments, the idea of &quot;vesting&quot;, she&#039;s scratched the surface of fiat vs hard currency understanding, and has learned several numismatic principles such as understanding weight and composition, and some early basics of grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not bad for 11 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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