How Do I Start A Coin Club?

Have you checked to see if there is one already? I see folks locally trying to start this-and-that, but not sure about their success or not. I occasionally see an add for Civil War buffs for instance in the local weekly news paper. Maybe that route will work for you?

I have no idea. But when, or if, you do start one, looks like I will have to take quite the trip to get to the coin club every time it happens!

You two are ambitious, and eager learners! Maybe try organizing a coin club at your schools? To organize a club (meetings of any kind), it takes an investment in time and effort. You probably have a better shot of starting a club than most adults would. It is an essential ingredient to creating movement. Slow starts, but can catch on if you remain dedicated to your effort.

For instance, what would your meeting agenda look like? Introductions of new members? Guest speakers? Select topics for discussion? Could be fun work!

I read your post over a couple hours ago and I tried to think of how it is that most clubs get started. I think that they just start organically. That is, a few friends with a common interest just start meeting, nothing formal, just friends sharing the love of the hobby. As long as you don't have to rent a meeting place, there's no reason that you couldn't do just that.

At some point the club would grow and you would need to adopt of set of rules (which you can borrow from any other club and rewrite to make them your own) and if you collect dues you will need to elect officers and file for non-profit status and get a bank account and all kinds of stuff that have nothing to do with coins at all.

But until then, just meet with friends that share your interest. The problem may be that there aren't many of you or perhaps you think there are other coin collectors out there but you haven't met any.

If that's the case, you can try getting your library to do a coin display and even hold an event. You might get funding but don't count on it. But you could charge fifty cents for a coin roll hunt contest with a prize for the one who finds the oldest coin. Libraries love kid friendly activities. The kids might be younger than what you're looking for but it could be a start and at least some people who participated would be interested or become interested. In fact, you could make that the basis for meeting for awhile -- just coin roll hunting with maybe a little info. shared about key dates and errors or something.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

In a town of 8000, you're going to be hard-pressed to form a coin club that won't fit onto a single barstool. There are, to the best of my knowledge, no functioning coin clubs in my city, and I live in Philadelphia. There's a good one across the river in New Jersey, and one in the west suburbs, but none in the 5th-largest city in the country.

This is, I think, as much about collector reticence as anything else.

No, not that I can see, but there are 27 clubs in the state.

I don't drive. Haven't owned a car since 1993. I can reach over a million and a half people via public transportation running 100 feet from my house, and not one coin club.

It seems very odd there is no coin club in Philadelphia. Was there ever one? A quick search didn't find any records of one.