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Why are you trying to persuade ancient coin collectors to switch to modern American coins? The hobby is big enough for all of us modern and ancient coin collectors alike. Personally, it is an impossible battle to get me to switch again. I just came from getting bored with the whole commodity and slab mentality of American coins. Ancient coins rekindled my love of numismatics. If you prefer modern coins then that's perfectly fine. As long as you are happy and are enjoying the hobby.

 

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It was just you tongue and cheek in the same way that you guys tell me that it is addictive to collect ancients. No offense intended and I hope that you didn't take it that way.

 

Sounds good. I hope you come to think of this forum as your home away from home. Hopefully once you hold your first ancient coin in your hands we will be seeing more of you here.

 

I have a scattered collection of ancients and find them really interesting, but I'm afraid that I'm too far gone for the conversion. My family has been collecting US coins since somewhere in the 1870s and my great grandfather worked at the New Orleans mint. The whole point here was to learn how to encourage my son to follow his interests without getting too burned. I'm sure that he and I will have our growing pains going after ancients, but I have to admit that being able to hold a coin that is a couple millennium old is pretty exciting. Being a U.S. Collector, I seldom get that opportunity without fear of damaging the coin. I'm not a slab collector, and frankly would prefer that they didn't exist, but I still have to protect my coins to protect their value from nosediving.

 

I think he likes it. He even turned off his xbox for almost twenty minutes (a new record). I really like it, the detail is stronger than it looked in the auction listing. And I like that he automatically knows to hold a (modern) coin properly. I told him that he doesn't have to worry so much about these, but he looked confused when I set it in the palm of his hand and told him to feel it.

 

i have two kids about his age...you scored a win my friend if xbox went off for 20 minutes. i think it's a pretty sweet, and i think you did well.

 

Sounds like a win!

 

Kirk => man, I love the that photo of young kid-Kirk (thanks for posting that, very cool idea ... Doug has a similar photo of his grand-kid looking at a coin that always makes me smile) ...

Curious though, do you already have your next ancient-coin-target for Kirk-Jr? (ummm, unless you've already decided that he's collecting ancient chick-coins, then I'd suggest an inexpensive, but always awesome "animal-coin" for your lil' dark-side-sonny-boy)

cheers, coin-brother

 

Just an FYI- Some ancient coins are brittle. Some things can happen to the metal alloy ductility when it sits in the ground for a couple thousand years. Modern coins might dent if they are dropped onto a hard surface but an ancient coin may shatter.


Edit to add: I may have one of the same coin as your son:


It depicts Faustina Senior.

 

He just seems to be interested in the old for now. I plan to get a few various things and let him decide what he wants to collect. No point of me trying to direct him down a path that he may not want to go. I'd hate to discourage him in any way.