So, My Cat Found My Large Cents And Seated Dollars...

We have a Jack Russell Terrier named Jasper.
He always follows me to the "coin room" and sleeps on my feet while I'm sitting at my table, sometimes for hours.
Sometimes he gets up, walks out to sit beside my chair, looks at me. He'll get his petting, and a brief conversation, then he goes back under the table to lay on my feet.

We have a 4 month old cat named Sapphire as well.
This female creature is both adorable and worrisome while I'm doing my coins. Her interest in what I'm doing there never ends.
I dont love her or find her adorable, while she leaps onto my legs, claws out, to literally scale me and get to the table. I mean, when you've just been sitting there quietly for a couple hours, minding your own business, then in an instant, with no warning, you're screaming bloody murder and hurling obscenities ...well...not cool.
She's leaped onto my back several times too, to climb me, with no warning either, while I'm just quietly sitting there, to "show me love" & that she's interested in what I'm doing too....
She jumps on the table too, walking right over whatever I'm doing, between my magnification tool and my face. All in 2 seconds, so I can't prevent, or see her coming.
Keeps getting in my open boxes of coin stuff on the floor right next to me, either playing or going to sleep there.
And EVERY coin that I misplace or temporarily lose, I blame on her.. () The wife & daughter "generally" know better than to mess with my coins...
Jasper would never get pleasure from causing me pain, stress, and anguish! ---

So, it's been MY experience that dogs are VERY coin friendly...
Cats are not ! --
(And you may even be bleeding after a curious stealthy unprovoked interaction while working on your coins!)

Then you're everybody.

I have bled more from cat scratches than I ever did when I was just being a kid.

This is absolutely true, anytime I'm at my desk or the table doing something I seem to gain one or two "helpers". I'm sorry cats, but you can't help with watchmaking without opposable thumbs. I've had to get on my hands and knees looking for tiny screws more than once.

Any British Shorthair owners here?

My wife loves cats. I wish they would ignore me instead of attempting to trip and kill me in the middle of the night. I've never cursed anything more or spent more money on any animal than I have cats.

The best way to catch the interest of your cat is to ignore it.
Cat psychology: use superior superiority.

Ha! You returned to find Felix staking a claim.