Ideas For A Nine Year Old

you need to get some kind of US/whatever country I live in today location marker. like an APO/FPO address. LOL

Slider beat me to the idea. State and park quarters have a lot of different designs that will get a child interested. It got me!

I remember when I was 9 and my uncle gave me my first Ike. He was not a collector, but he occasionally gave me such coins as gifts. I saved them for years. The reason they were so special to me was because I considered them rare, since I never encountered such coins in circulation. That fascinated me.

Since she is 9, but also a girl, nifty display holders are one way to go. State Quarters maps are definitely cool for that. Commemoratives are very cool at any age. (One of my favorite modern US commemoratives is the 1999 Dolley Madison dollar, very girly.)

We have untold bags of circulated non-silver world coins. My 9-year-old son loves sorting them. When I was that age, I wish I had things to sort and catalogue.. For an ENTIRE summer when I was 12 I imagined I was a bookie and tallied the results of horse races in the newspaper every day. I kept it well-organized, too.

Many coins shops cannot sell the majority of the clad, bronze, brass, etc. world coins, and will often have bulk quanities, unsorted and cheap. If she lives near a coin store (and therefore has the opportunity to acquire such), perhaps a 1900-present world coin book could be fun. Taking the time to sort those world coins frequently pays off, too. The dealers I get them from don't have time to look up every world coin in the price guide.

Pay-offs aside, I am willing to bet that a box of flips, a few pretty markers, a catalogue, and a trip with you to the coin shop would keep her busy this whole summer.

OR buy her lots of Gold Coins.

All good ideas. When I do this with the nieces and nephews, we always check the globe to see where the coin came from, and the encyclopedia to learn something about the culture. A lot of our sentences begin with, "Did you know..."

Of course I think the idea of the State Quarter map is a good idea.

I always like seeing new State Quarter collectors.

Another idea - Whitman makes a nice 20th century type album.

There are a couple of harder coins, but many can be found in circulation.

It also would give you the opportunity to give her gifts in the future,
of coins for those harder to fill holes.

I second the proof idea. Many kids a fascinated by them. Proof sets were what originally sent me over the edge lol