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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinneseur, post: 3139836, member: 96144&quot;]I second your statement good sir! I am fairly new at collecting coins, and I never pictured myself doing so until I asked my 6 year old daughter to hunt for ugly pennies with me soon after I inherited it from fraternal brother who I had to care for his last 3 months in hospice. The gleam in my daughters eyes looks like a pro poker face that make opponents fold for her look shows to let me knows she is holding something that she thinks that may have value, but in reality I really have no clue. The feeling I get when I tell her that each one of the coins she finds, I will keep, which I have been, for they all are beautifully ugly, as ugly as pennies could be, for in my mind and he uglier the penny the more chances it could be a mint error. Though it would be nice to find a few more, the times we chat about coins, me talking and teaching her a bit of our history (thanks to google) for the references and good reads. Also how awesome it is to easily pick up a hobby with a companion who learns with you each time we turn over an old coin. To me the coins she finds are priceless, just for the memories of how excited she gets when she finds one that we both were looking for (some I threw in her pile of course for that quicker-pick-her-upper). And to parents who parent, coin hunting not only brought me and my daughter closer together, I also learned more about my daughter, learned more about her personality, her boiling point and her limits. But I am more very thankful for this hobby for what helped me teaching her what she was struggling most in, her class which was mathematics. My daughter came a long way last school year for her math was below average the first 2 quarters of her first grade year.&nbsp; But like how I always go for the underdog, numbers came naturally to her and thanks to coin collecting, teaching her basic match through something we both loved doing, I saw her from keeping her head down when her teachers asks the class to answer a math problem to her being semi-master in it with her head up high and her hand alwats up even before the teacher asks a basic math problem. She became a top notch student in her class to her teacher saying she is ready to take in 4th grade math. That is not all, she also learned how to handle, care, and respect money...she now also value hardwork and having a little understanding on the “you get out what you put in,” concept/way of life. Who ever knew I would be doing something I never pictured myself doing and loving each and every moment of it.&nbsp; My wife feels left out, though, but that is fine, for she dislikes pennies, and me and my coinneseuress is fine with that... In due time my daughter will know that every penny we set aside, is truly for her all along. Cheers and ladies and gents, you all know very well that we all know and put a price or seen a price to coins we often seek or find. Its the joy of the hunt, that feeling that you will find or get what you had been looking for that is missing in your collection. Though are drives are different, prices, and coinaging ways, but if coin collecting is a crime, we will all be at AA meetings standing up saying our name and coins being the reason we are all there... one after the other, including me and my daughter. True story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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