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<p>[QUOTE="KeyHunter, post: 8050957, member: 122558"]An interesting perspective that has likely been beaten to death in the past...but I'm a relative newbie here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike most articles, I especially enjoyed the reader comments that followed, especially one I'll post along with the link. Halloween just passed and I have tubes and TUBES of old wheatie pennies and nickels, odds n ends accumulated from childhood that rightly could be better passed to a younger generation <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/2019/9/16/this-dying-hobby" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/2019/9/16/this-dying-hobby" rel="nofollow">https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/2019/9/16/this-dying-hobby</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Joe 9 months ago · 0 Likes</p><p><br /></p><p>"The best thing that you can do is put some old but cheap coins into the buckets that come to your door at halloween. Tell the kids that the coins are a hundred years old or some other cool story. Watch their eyes light up. I've had parents tell me that this is what their kids remember from knocking on my door.</p><p>In addition I've also set up a website about my collecting interest - Irish gunmoney. The more social media in this day and age the better.</p><p>As an aside I also started collecting at a very young age through the change that I received when visiting different countries. We should make kids aware of coin collecting as a hobby whenever we can."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KeyHunter, post: 8050957, member: 122558"]An interesting perspective that has likely been beaten to death in the past...but I'm a relative newbie here. Unlike most articles, I especially enjoyed the reader comments that followed, especially one I'll post along with the link. Halloween just passed and I have tubes and TUBES of old wheatie pennies and nickels, odds n ends accumulated from childhood that rightly could be better passed to a younger generation ;) [URL]https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/2019/9/16/this-dying-hobby[/URL] Joe 9 months ago · 0 Likes "The best thing that you can do is put some old but cheap coins into the buckets that come to your door at halloween. Tell the kids that the coins are a hundred years old or some other cool story. Watch their eyes light up. I've had parents tell me that this is what their kids remember from knocking on my door. In addition I've also set up a website about my collecting interest - Irish gunmoney. The more social media in this day and age the better. As an aside I also started collecting at a very young age through the change that I received when visiting different countries. We should make kids aware of coin collecting as a hobby whenever we can."[/QUOTE]
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