A few days ago I had to give a half hour presentation to about 8 cub scouts in 2nd grade. I brought along my States folders, Parks folder I also brought along a few Morgan and Peace dollars and a barber quarter. I explained to them were the mint marks were , D,S, W,O and on the new coins the P mint marks I showed them some paper money and the different between the 1923 silver certificates and the 1923 to 1957 small size ones. they asked me how did the people get a big dollar in there wallet so I pulled out a bill I've had for maybe 50 years took it and re folded it. Thank goodness it was around XF or so. Then I asked If anyone can tell the difference between two different 1988-A dollars, Both were B/L 's one cub scout said he could. He said look at the small numbers and letters on the left and right of the bills. He was correct , one was a WEB and the other one was a sheet bill. Everyone enjoyed my talk. No bills or coins were hurt . I also had some last years Numismatic News as hand outs.
This is fantastic! I did the same for my youngest Boy’s Cub Scout den. His Scout den are all of the rank ‘Wolf Scout.’ Coin collecting is an elective that they can earn a belt loop award for. This was just a couple weeks ago: Here is the belt loop that they earned It really is a lot of fun, and hopefully at least one of them will be bitten by the numismatic bug!
I commend both of you. Who knows, if you were able to reach just youngster we could have a new collector. Awesome!
