Who All Gave Christmas Presents Of Coins?

Yes and No. I had a roll of Madison $$ and handed one to each child after we gave presents out. It went really well and I think some adults weren't too happy they didn't get one.

Looks like next year I'll need two rolls

I know what you mean, Amazon99. I considered giving some Roman coins to my nephews but decided against it. Maybe I should have, it might have sparked an interest. Or the coins might have just been lost, it is hard to know.

This year I gave birth year sets to my 6 grandchildren, hoping to spark an interest in collecting.
The oldest, Taylor, 11, already has Lincoln Cent, Jefferson nickel, and Roosevelt dime albums.
I'm hoping the others will follow suit.

By the way, Happy New Year to everyone on the forum, thanks for sharing info here, and may 2008 be your best year ever!

I gave one of my nephews a 1918 Walker and started him out on a Presidential dollar album.

I have another nephew who happened to get a little metal detector for Christmas so we put out several Adams and Madison dollars around the yard and let him go at it.

My kids (10 and 11) and I just started collecting coins this Christmas! I buy each of them a silver proof set every year, but up until now that's been the extent of our collecting.

My daughter became very interested in coins several months back when she acquired a few foreign coins and a couple of wheat pennies. She's been trying to gather foreign and/or old coins ever since, so for Christmas this year I bought her 10 pounds of mixed foreign coins (no US or Canada) for less than $40 including s/h. She's been sorting through them for hours each day since Christmas, so it was money well spent.

In addition to that, we took the money my grandparents sent us for Christmas and decided to start collecting US coins as a family. We started with a bag of 5,000 wheats and a 1909-2007 book to collect them in. We managed to fill most of the book from that bag (just missing most of the key/semi-key dates). Over time we'll fill in the holes and swap out some of the older coins for some in better condition. We also found quite a few Indian Head cents in the bag of wheats, so we're going to start an indian head/flying eagle book too. I guess the next step after that would be the nickels.

So far, we're having a lot of fun with it.

I usually get my wife a couple dolphin coins for a stocking stuffer. She is not a coin collector, but she is a collector of dolphins so it works well

This year, she got 1973 10 Lepta Greece, 1996 5 Kronur Iceland, and 1997 200 Escudos Portugal. As a bonus, she also got huge hunk o' bronze in the form of a dolphin calender medal from Medallic Art Company (76mm, 290gram)

I gave my wife the 10 piece silver set of endangered species from Mexico and a 10th anniversary Loon. The kids got an almost full State Quarter book each and an almost empty Presidential $1 book.