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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Grey Ghost, post: 759169, member: 22094&quot;]Long time lurker, first time post.&nbsp; I can tell you what I am doing that is a lot of fun.&nbsp; The first time the tooth fairy came, there was a &quot;special&quot; coin, I think the first was a mercury head dime.&nbsp; The next time an indian head and lincoln wheat, a buff, then halfs, even a dollar.&nbsp; There is a special place to keep them.&nbsp; The stocking at christmas has something.&nbsp; The coin can be anything, old or new, shiny or not, a SAC or SBA, Ike, foreign coins, a half penny one Christmas, the Queen another year (yeah I know the Queen was on the half penny), even presidentials.&nbsp; This year it will be territories.&nbsp; In between, I keep all the state quarters I get and occasionaly&nbsp; I &quot;find&quot; one in my change and we go through the accumulated trove and put in a couple.&nbsp; We lack only Hawaii.&nbsp;&nbsp; Used a folder with a map so we have a history/geography lesson with each one.&nbsp; The attention span is short, so I kept it moving, and made sure there were a couple to put in every time we looked.&nbsp; Sometimes a couple of months would go by without really looking but then something will remind my child and off we go to the coins adn sort them.&nbsp; I also keep a PD folder that is &quot;my&quot; folder to give us a bit more to look for in the state quarter department.&nbsp; I have a roll of 1950 wheats to play with, touch, stack, and stare at.&nbsp; The coins I use are common date good, so the investment is minimal. Foreign coins are great as well for history and geography and relatively inexpensive.&nbsp; This has worked well to keep interest up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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