My Present to My Sister

Nice thought WSS! You might want to give her something that doesn't look like coins she's familiar with...Washington Quarters, Roosevelt Dimes, etc. Maybe a couple of Mercs or Buffalos and tell her they're obsolete and aren't accepted by stores anymore. It's a little sneaky, but it might keep her from trying to spend them. By the time she figures it out, she might be hooked on the hobby. Good luck!

Bruce

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

wrong approach, tell her that the right coin, by itself, could buy her a brand new pair of jimmy chew shoes

 

I really hope you just have moral objections to posting smileys.

 

I hear you, but there are very important female numismatists. Many times they simply take a different angle on collecting. Some collect for the artistic merit, others the cultural and historical references. OP, I would pay attention to what your sister likes and maybe buy her a coin version of that. Does she like a particular area of the world, or particular time in history?

 

I hear you, but there are very important female numismatists.

There are no fixed rules, certainly. The mediation of learned behaviour by the cerebral cortex of the more basic instincts of the older parts of the brain is what allows civilisation to exist at all, but we all still have that old lizard brain ticking away despite millions of years of evolution building more and more layers of sophisticated reasoning on top of it.

We still retain the fight or flight instincts of the primaeval creatures we are built on so despite the marvel of the highest brain functions, predicting the mass behaviour of humans is best based on their basic programming.

The OP's objective could probably be best achieved by a strict prohibition to his sister of any form of collecting, especially coins, as he wishes to keep them all to himself.

For an eleven year old, this should do the trick.

 

So, let us know what your sister thought about the gift?

 

She likes it for the most part. And is collecting