Like Baseball trading cards? https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/mint-distributing-coin-cards-as-part-of-educational-outreach What a Yody Hoo idea. Who's the genius that thought that one up?
I don't think it's a bad idea to try and get kids or others interested in coin collecting. Similar to this and many other mint produces that try and generate revenue. https://catalog.usmint.gov/rocketship-2019-19XGC.html To me, it's somewhat degrading to the hobby and for serious collectors!
I doubt it Randy. When I was a kid, they were 'hot' but the draw to collect them fell away when they began over producing them
Same here. I would have been all over coin trading cards when I was a lad..... I am afraid if the mint wants to get youngsters attention these days they need to create a “Buffalo Nickel Star Wars Shoot Out” video game or something.
Kripes. We need to get them off the couch and back on the ball field. I recently viewed a little league game up in Oneonta (NY) and it was fun to see the kids play......
I didn't collect baseball cards, but the non-sport type movie and other cards. The baseball card prices are circling the drain worse than the decline in some coin prices. Football, basketball and hokey most you can't give away even the older ones. Nascar ones were hot for a minute and a half. Good luck to them some collectors will buy them just to have them.
My nephew, now 17, never showed a single ounce of interest in trading cards or really in collecting anything. His parents and grandparents definitely tried, as obsessive collecting runs in the family, but he resisted. My father brought him packs of baseball and football cards and he would say thanks in a "meh" way. He wasn't mean (though he was also 12 - 14) but it was painfully obvious that he had absolutely no interest. And he is a huge sports fan. I don't know how representative he is of his generation, but I know if I tried to give him coins now he would probably give the same courteous and disinterested response. He responds much better to gift cards. But coin cards? Will anyone but already existing coin collectors have any interest? I guess the mint will find out.
