My grandson happened to notice an image of Yosemite National Park on a quarter. We did a little research and discovered that the US Mint has produced several memorial quarter series. He immediately decided he wanted to see if he could collect a complete set. To help and support him, I came here and asked for help in the Coin Chat forum. I got some great help there. I also posted a question on our neighborhood newsgroup. One neighbor gave me a jar of coins, and some paper money, that they had collected over several decades traveling around the world. I thought this group might be interested and could probably give me some advice on what to do with these coins. My plan is to get him started with quarters and see how he does with that. If his interest lasts more than a few weeks, then I will consider expanding his scope by giving him these coins. Anyway, I spread the coins out and sorted them into 3 groups based on size and took some photos. I then uploaded the photos to this OneDrive folder. https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArBLbKVM2K_H06Npxwsc3RU1OWCXng?e=cPTF3E OneDrive can take some time to get fully synced, if all 8 photos are not there yet, they should be soon. I'd be interested in any opinions anyone has about this collection. After I saw the photos, I realized that I could have done a better job. There are several coins that have duplicates. I could have put them next to each other and shown both sides. If I get a minute tomorrow, I might redo the photos. Same with the bills. And speaking of that, should I also post this on the Paper Money forum? Thanks
LOL. At least you have one decent neighbor. All I get from mine is misery. The &%$#$ cut down a tree of mine. Sorry, another story.
Sorry about your tree. That's a bummer. We have a great neighborhood. Another neighbor offered to let him go through her "quarter jar". She has been dropping extra quarters there for many years. She says she has 3 medium size jars. That will be fun for him.
I looked up the US $1 star note. It's pretty common. No extra value. Most of the coins look to be modern. There may be a few that are silver but I don't know.
Nothing really valuable but that's not the point since you are getting a kid interested. If you want to organize them, there are cardboard holders called 2x2s that I use for my coins. You staple them in the holder, write on the holder what it is and store it in plastic pages in an album. To identify them you can type what you can read into Google and figure it out. I wouldn't recommend buying a reference book unless you're going to get a lot more coins.
