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<p>[QUOTE="Sealgair, post: 6042190, member: 97867"]I’ll admit to being a hoarder (many rural Mainers are—“junk is what you call something you threw away a week before you realized what you needed it for”). But I caught the coin bug when I had a paper route customer who always gave me a silver dollar every Xmas (Peace—you could just get them from the bank in the 40-50s). It remained a very casual pastime until my first grandchild was born, then the enterprise took off in two major directions—history (including family matters) and intellectual culture (including aesthetics). (There is a financially significant aspect to a big chunk—Morgans, some numismatically interesting bullion like ASEs and wedge-tailed eagles—but that is more a money thing and while I give regular gifts of expensive coins to the, those are more part of their inheritance, at least to start.) So I started a US type collection (knowing that there would be many holes) and a fairly comprehensive Canadian group (to remind my younger ones of their New Brunswick great-grandmother. One historical thread is 18th to 20th c Europe where shifting politics (and armed conquest) can be traced in the coinage. The number and sophistication of bthe questions can change as the new children’s minds develop. The ancients could start with the “biggies”—Nero, Cleopatra, Alexander—and develop into an interest in Roman Britain, since the kids are majority English and Irish in heritage. What Nazi or Fascist countries continued to display likenesses of the old aristocracy and why? What can we infer from the change of coinage from large copper (Catherine the Great) and silver (various thalers) to aluminum? (I was in Poland shortly after the USSR collapse and saw piles of zlotys lying on the ground everywhere, worthless in people’s eyes even for bulk metal.) So I hope that these sorts of things are so open-ended that interest could go in almost any direction. (A couple idiosyncratic interests—raptors and mythical beasties—may be just plain fun, as they are for me.) As the newest generation age, I hope the questions will feed each other, and it they don’t, the fact that Grandpa Jeffrey put these collections together make be valuable enough on their own to make the effort worth it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sealgair, post: 6042190, member: 97867"]I’ll admit to being a hoarder (many rural Mainers are—“junk is what you call something you threw away a week before you realized what you needed it for”). But I caught the coin bug when I had a paper route customer who always gave me a silver dollar every Xmas (Peace—you could just get them from the bank in the 40-50s). It remained a very casual pastime until my first grandchild was born, then the enterprise took off in two major directions—history (including family matters) and intellectual culture (including aesthetics). (There is a financially significant aspect to a big chunk—Morgans, some numismatically interesting bullion like ASEs and wedge-tailed eagles—but that is more a money thing and while I give regular gifts of expensive coins to the, those are more part of their inheritance, at least to start.) So I started a US type collection (knowing that there would be many holes) and a fairly comprehensive Canadian group (to remind my younger ones of their New Brunswick great-grandmother. One historical thread is 18th to 20th c Europe where shifting politics (and armed conquest) can be traced in the coinage. The number and sophistication of bthe questions can change as the new children’s minds develop. The ancients could start with the “biggies”—Nero, Cleopatra, Alexander—and develop into an interest in Roman Britain, since the kids are majority English and Irish in heritage. What Nazi or Fascist countries continued to display likenesses of the old aristocracy and why? What can we infer from the change of coinage from large copper (Catherine the Great) and silver (various thalers) to aluminum? (I was in Poland shortly after the USSR collapse and saw piles of zlotys lying on the ground everywhere, worthless in people’s eyes even for bulk metal.) So I hope that these sorts of things are so open-ended that interest could go in almost any direction. (A couple idiosyncratic interests—raptors and mythical beasties—may be just plain fun, as they are for me.) As the newest generation age, I hope the questions will feed each other, and it they don’t, the fact that Grandpa Jeffrey put these collections together make be valuable enough on their own to make the effort worth it.[/QUOTE]
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