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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smullen, post: 119755, member: 5165&quot;]I don&#039;t know that coin collecting will go ever away as I&#039;m guessing just here in the US there are a few millions, who knows how many Worldwide, but I do admit there has been a decline over the last few decades...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think thats partly to blame on the Parents..&nbsp; For the most part, I don&#039;t think we spend enought time with our kids anymore... We are to busy working to keep them in House, Food and Clothes and other crap and then we want a little of our own time...&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t leave much for them...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My daughter and I (Shes 10 I&#039;m 32) have recently gotten into coin collecting and we are really enjoying it....&nbsp; I try to spend a few hours a week with her...&nbsp; Last night, while her Mom watched Sophranos (I watch it too), the lil one and I sat at the Dinning Room table a and went through our Penny Jar digging for Lincolns...</p><p><br /></p><p>I could not beleive it... We filled every spot in a Whitman Folder of (Lincoln Cents 1975 - Present) except for the following 10 Coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>1981 (no mint mark - Philidelphia)</p><p>1982 (all 7 types)</p><p>1992 (no mint mark - Philidelphia)</p><p>1997 (no mint mark - Philidelphia)</p><p><br /></p><p>and we started on a Whitman (Lincoln Cent 1941 - 1974), which overlaps with our (1909 - 1973 Lincoln Cent)...&nbsp; But you can never have to many coins as far as we are concerned...</p><p><br /></p><p>She is saving her allowance and next week, she wants to buy a Mint set of 194x Mercury Dimes we saw at the Coinstore as well as some more 2x2s to put her nicer coins in and another Whitman for Nickels I think...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This weekend she had a few gilfriends over and I overheard her showing off some of her coins...&nbsp; Supprisingly, the other lil ones sounded interested and said they wanted to get some old coins...&nbsp; So, I&#039;m thinking of buying a few more Whitman Penny Folders to give them and a Big Bulk bag of Supposedly unsearched &quot;&quot;Wheaties&quot;&quot; for them to all dig though and see who can fill the most dates and get the oldest cent.... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think I have an few extras from 1909 (not VDB) to 1920, I was going to spike the bag with and tell them whoever finds the oldest coin gets a Silver Dollar or something...&nbsp; Maybe one of those new funky 10.00 Bills...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think each of us as collecters, should start helping to promote to Hobby...&nbsp; I know I&#039;ve got a few of my office co-workers collecting now....&nbsp; Both Coins and Bullion...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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