A Custodian Of Beautiful Things

Great article, I hope we get to read more from you! Thank you for sharing it.

I'm working my way through $100 of pennies, by hand. Sometimes I get my stepson to compete to see who gets more copper in a roll. It's fun trying to teach him the value of money, the art of being precise (I "dock" him two for every one he misses in the sort), how to do things with his hands that isn't video games. Maybe I'll get a penny book and we'll see how far we can get by roll hunting. Maybe he'll look back fondly when it's time to pick my nursing home.

Thanks for sharing!

Very well written and so true. I collect US military artifacts from the Spanish American War to present day and feel the same custodial responsibilities for the memories of those men that used the equipment and wore the uniforms I currently possess. I hope my children learn that same respect for our past and for those who came and did before us.

Thank you for sharing.

when I first started collecting I would sit for hours with my daughter looking at coins and would even give her the duplicates or the coins I upgraded. When I would get mine out I would also have to get hers out as well and she would sit and look at them even though at the time she was about 4 or 5 years old and probably didn't know the difference between a quarter and a half dollar, but she sure knew what a Morgan was. She is 11 now and now she asks me why I spend so much time photographing, looking at my coins as she now has better things to do with her time than looking at coins. Her coins are still in there in the closet stacked one on one in separate pringles cans just waiting for the day that she gets interested in coins once again. When I sit and think about the time we used to spend together with our coins it reminds me of the times when I was a kid and helping my grandfather search through change for coins that were perfectly centered and the best example we could find, and of the Christmases that his father used to give each great grandchild a silver dollar as a present (this was early 70's) and every time I feel the heft of a silver dollar in my hand it sometimes still reminds me of those silver coins he would hand out on Christmas afternoon when everyone would meet at my grandparents house for Christmas dinner. So I am one that can definitely attest that those memories you make with a child will surely be remembered even if it is years down the road and I just can't wait until the time my daughter decides she wants to take a look at those old coins she used to look at with her father and think about the good ol days and she decides she wants a collection all her own

I really enjoyed reading your article!

To Conder101,
Please do!
Just credit our Society and supply our web address as provided in the original post.
Me? I don't need any special mention.
I am having enough fun as it is.
Matthew

Note: It is "Photos" that is a concern. Can you imagine ... my last, more scholarly article, needed an "ok" from the folks at David Lawrence Rare Coins. The SON of the man who wrote "THE BOOK" on Barber dimes was advised of our request and gave his okie dokie.
I am still "not worthy."
I hope to see it, in print, this coming Spring.
Spread education wherever and whenever you can.

You are off to a good start here, Mathew. Thank you for sharing this and your other post.