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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeEatWheaties, post: 1037403, member: 26972&quot;]A simple way to start with your education as previous mentioned&nbsp; is to get an eBay account and use the search for various coin criteria.&nbsp;&nbsp; then&nbsp; compare buy it now prices to help establish auction bid limits. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You mentioned 1960 for example.&nbsp; A good starting place would be to search (1960 Mint sets)&nbsp; Go to the tab of Buy it now and compare prices by sorting lowest to highest, then go to auctions - set your high bid lower than the lowest &quot;buy it now&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A different suggestion if you want to tie coins and kids together..</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t notice how old your kids are. now for the kids and coins thing&nbsp; Getting a bulk bag of circulated wheatie pennies and spending time with them sorting them and sticking them into albums.&nbsp; I think that where everyone started with collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Birth year sets are cool, but if the kids can&#039;t pull the shiny coins out of the plastic they may loose interest - it&#039;s really hard to explain to kids that when you touch mint state coins they loose their value.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However with sorting through pennies nearly a hundred years old, all kinds of topics will come up.&nbsp; The next step is getting a publication that lists values and then learning mintage quantities and how that affects the value through its rarity. the most rare are your key dates......</p><p><br /></p><p>just a different slant - suggestion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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