Getting younger people interest in collecting coins.

Did the YN group on CT die out?

 

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And I suppose William The Conqueror should have been a "nicer" guy.........

 

Something you can do is pass out coins that are not worth more than face value to your kids, kids friends, nieces, nephews, etc. When I say coins not worth more than face value, I am referring to common date wheaties, dateless buffs, etc.

When I have gone to help Scout troops, I make sure I have enough wheaties to give to every kid. I also have a trivia and give away a few other things like well worn indian cents, worn liberty nickels and small silver coinage. You cannot spark interest with young kids without giving them something, then educating them on what you just gave them.

 

My Great grandfather got me started on collecting. I never met him though. He gave a partial set of IHC's (his third nicest set) to my grandmother, who passed them to me the day I was born. There are still two complete, ungraded sets in the family.

about 25 years old, I decided I would try to complete the set I was given, and after a few years I did.

 

I saw a Storage Wars recently where Jarrod and Brandi bought a unit that had two safes in it, and the bigger safe was loaded with coins. That would be such an awesome find!

 

I am 12 and almost every weekend I go down to my local coin shop and search for that one coin in there piles of old coins. Also I like to sort through my change and see if I got any new coins for my collection. Today I got a new 5 cent folder and my dad had an old one so I switched them into the new one and then my grandma had a huge bucket of 5 cents and I have gotten almost all coins from 1920 - 2011 which is great. All in great condition even though they were all circulated.

 

One way to do so, is to have a bunch of rolled quarters and ask for their help with putting them in a state quarters album. Have them search, distinguish P from D and put the higher quality ones into the spots. Me and my cousin do that every time I babysit him, though it is kinda stacked because I use the same quarters and folder every time, but I mix them with rolls I got from the bank. Sometimes, they are upgrades, sometimes, I get them banged up even more, luckily they are all circulated I put into that folder. He has one of his own that if he doesn't have it, he can have that hole filled.

 

It was operated in the gameroom, and that, unfortunately, is gone. A friend of mine is working on it, but he's a busy guy.

 

I started around 6yrs old, lost interest at about 16, resumed at 29 & more into it then ever before.

 

That's an AWESOME idea, Jason! I hope Peter considers it, that could really make an impact on a YN and raise publicity for CoinTalk.

 

Old N's wanna go to........LOL

 

Perhaps a buddy system?

 

This is what it is about. While I do lots of things trying to encourage YN's, the fact the hobby is predominantly older is in the nature of collecting. Most younger people have HS, college, girls, a car, etc to keep them occupied. When they get settled, (and their hormones settle down), then they start becoming more interested in a hobby. I started very young, kept up with it a little in college, but really started again after college.

Chris

 

Unless you are like me and think "She don't matter, I got lady liberty in my pocket"

Nothing distracts me from the hobby of kings.

 

You nor me

 

Oh you devil. You shall never need Viagra............

 

Oh green, You have no idea how rigorously I am laughing right now

 

Me and my son (Cazkaboom) Go out to the library and talk about coins with some friends and sometimes get leads on where to buy some, we are actually going to buy a couple (300) dimes and a few (280) quarters and search through them. Somebody saw us talking and asked if we wanted to take a look at some coins they inherited. So it isn't always getting new people that is the case, but for some of us, we get leads.

 

yeah, and i was like wow, they care nothing about the coins, history, anything, all they cared about was the value. i would have keep every one of the coins and added them to my collection, cut the loss and move on. but thats me.

 

I think that show is fake. Like the whole auction thing is real but what they find. Just seems so set up. That situations and that. Every locker seems to be a big winner. Some they lose or break even.