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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i have given this web site to several of the young collectors in our coin club. does anyone have anyother suggestions on how to incourage these kids they do like the hobby.
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Forum Mom
 United States
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I would like to see some of our young collectors respond to this thread. What do you all think could be done to bring more young people into collecting?  |
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Valued Member
Ireland
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im not sure what age category would you regard as 'young', I myself am 20years.
its really in the person themself, I dont think you can really promote the hobby, people have their own interests. I can clearly understand how someone can have interest in stamps and not coins or whatever. but I would admit, collecting coins is a hobby that is normally started when the person is older, they appreciate the coins for their historical value if anything. maybe yee guys might think different. just my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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IMHO, I think the younger colectors need to see world coins to spark more interest. While we have a lot of nice looking coins in the US, most of the better designs are older and less visible. I would bet we'd have a lot more interest with younger people if we had the pandas or wolf designs more in mainstream currency per say. I am 37, so not young by age, but am very new to collecting. The coins that catch my eye the most have been more of the plain "animal" type coins. Again, just my honest opinion.
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Valued Member
Ireland
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you have a point there tights24, for example the changeover of the euro currency was a huge thing and probably 'sparked off' many young people to start collecting in europe and probably other parts of the world. 'grabbing their attention' is the idea.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2600 Posts |
Unfortunately, young people today have so much more to do than children even 30 yrs ago. I direct a bridge club and the youngest player we have is in their 40s. We discuss this subject all the time because we cannot replace players as we lose them and our game is shrinking. As a young boy, we had two tv channels and no video games so a lot of the entertainment came from our family card games (how I learned to play bridge). I am afraid that coin collecting and other hobbies have the same problem. It would seem that the internet and places like ebay auctions are our best chance to get them involved as it ties one of youths greatest activities with our love. Jim |
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Kuwait
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Well, I haven't heard from other young collectors on this forum. It depends... I like things that are old or are toned. Give him/her a coin that is "unknown" to them and get them to find it out. Say it might have some value to it. They get searching...Buy books... Find out its worth a quarter and egg your house....  Thanks! TKC! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
882 Posts |
Well, I am only 20 years old and even over a period of 5 years, I really wished I had purchased some coins when I first started. I think younger collectors can find that some serious money is involved in coin collecting and it's an excellent hobby in many ways.
Good things,
Ty
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Valued Member
United States
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Jim I totally agree with all of the tv and video games that kids have. In my household my two oldest 5 & 6 only have a limited time to watch tv and play games and the time they do get is regulated. And TKC has a good point about showing younger a coin they have never seen before might turn the light bulb on. Really though I think it has to do with The young ones household, memories of family members with coins, and just a plain old gut instinct to know that coins are way cool.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a young collector (14) and honestly I think that it depends on the person. Each person is attracted to different things. You can give a kid a boatload of rare/expensive coins and still spark no interest. If you personally know the kid, I'd suggest going to a coin show and looking at all the different possibilities. Seeing the coin in person is always different than looking at it in a RedBook or the like. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Actually this same question came up a long time ago on the PCGS forum. Of course that place has gotten out of hand now with well over 20,000 members. Some YN's began posting the question why not have a separate forum for YN's so they could do like all kids do and discuss coins at their level. Several of them jumped on that suggestion as a great idea. PCGS just ignored them. From what I've heard from one of them, instead they formed sort of an internet coin club and buy, sell, ask questions among themselves. I think they just don't like some of the nonsense that adults rant on about.
Possibly that is something this forum could look into. Kids like to talk to adults but I think as a rule they would like to talk amongst themselves first.
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Valued Member
Australia
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I am a girl guide leader in Australia and since I have renewed my interest in coins I have interested a number of other people young and old in coins.
I help them find coins and I share any new info. about coins that I find out.
One of our girl guides has just completed a numbers badge in which she worked on information of coins from other guiding countries.
So in Australia the young are still interested.
My so to be 8year old nephew is getting a collection opf Aust. 20 cent coins for his birthday as he drools over mine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kids take right to putting together a set of coins. You can give thenm a folder and some worn buffalos but they might lose interest when they can't get more coins to check or can't continue to fill some holes. For this reason the best bet is sets of circulating coinage. When they complete one of these they've been at it for a while and are more likely to want to try a harder set.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
577 Posts |
I agree that taking someone to a coin show would be a great way to get started. I believe that to show a kid the diversity of our coinage would spark an interest in most kids. But some people were just not meant to collect coins, and you shouldn't force it on them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi everyone !!
I have been watching this thread with great interest ,,
I would like to provoke it a little with a question for the younger group this includes the new collector of any age !!
Would it be beneficial to you if you had a mentor ?Someone who's interest are similar ,but with greater experiance ?
That you could interact with on a one to one basis maybe a couple of times a week or more .
Rick
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01/11/2007 1:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Metalman, I think you have brought up a good point. I am not young, but am very new to collecting. I think the difference for me is that I can see the value of what I am doing for potential investment and/or inheritance for my next of kin. As for one on one interaction, I would love it, but I have to settle for this forum right now. I have no time to actually get somewhere after work, and my weekends of course are always packed. So this forum and its knowledgable people are my escape for now.....
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