Coin Collecting Merit Badge

I received the coin collecting badge when I was a scout.

However, that was 34 years ago and I barely remember the process.

What I do remember is completing a (modest) 20th century type set and presenting it at a troop meeting.

Here is the link to the USA site....The Canadian site is below, with a heck of a lot less work to get it...

I've included #9 & #10 of the 10 requirements that are asked for to get the badge in the USA:

9)Do ONE of the following:
Collect and identify 50 foreign coins from at least 10 different countries.
Collect and identify 20 bank notes from at least five different countries.
Collect and identify 15 different tokens or medals.
For each year since the year of your birth, collect a date set of a single type of coin.

10)Do ONE of the following:
Tour a U.S. Mint facility, a Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility, a Federal Reserve bank, or a numismatic museum or exhibit, and describe what you learned to your counselor.
With your parent's permission, attend a coin show or coin club meeting, or view the website of the U.S. Mint or a coin dealer, and report what you learned.
Give a talk about coin collecting to a group such as your troop, a Cub Scout pack, or your class at school.
Do drawings of five Colonial-era U.S. coins.



http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource...mb-COIN.aspx

------------------------------------------------------------>Here is the Canadian requirements:


http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/...ollector.pdf

To Get A Collectors Badge:
Collect and organize a group of objects of your choice
and keep your collection for a period of at least three
months. Some examples: coins, stamps, photos, books,
comics, sports player cards, leaves, matchbox toys, etc.
Show and talk about your collection at a pack meeting.

http://www.scouts.ca/ca/cub-scouts-...requirements

Thanks for posting some of the requirements aardspeed. You're right about those reqs, its seems the Canadian scouting organization is pretty broad on it.

The BSA actually has 3 collecting badges; stamps, coins, and one simply called collections. I did become a counselor for the last one, along with a handful of others, though only one is Eagle rank required.

@bpoc I think my most interesting merit badge memory was Wilderness Survival. Sleeping in my improvised shelter was pretty cool, though if I had to do it again I bet it would be less of the rushed thing it was.

Hmmm... my 1920's handbook makes no mention of such a merit badge (Last Pic)... gotta love the artwork in these early handbooks!

Awesome handbook you've got there!

That reminds me of some of the miscellaneous scouting artifacts that were on display last month for my troop's 90th anniversary last month. I'm still in town so I came over. The turnout was good, and we got a handful of scouts who had been in the troop as far back as the 1950s, and if I remember correctly at least one of them came from as far as Florida (to NJ) for the event.

I am so envious the US has a coin collecting badge. It was just a collecting badge when I went through in Canada (later '70s) and I got mine with postcards because they seemed easier to organize than coins or hockey cards I still have the badge somewhere - I think there's a magnifying glass on it.

...my previous post regarding the "collecting badge" in Canada were the requirements for Cub Scouts...(Ages 8-10)

This is what is expected for ages 11 to 14

. Own and add to a collection that
you have worked on for the last six
months. This must have been done as a Scout.
2. Display your collection in a suitable manner.
3. Present your collection, your interest in it,
some of its history and describe why and
how you chose to display it as you have.


http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/...ollector.pdf

Still, it seems much easier to obtain a "collectors badge" here in Canada compared to the USA, but their badges seem to be more of an in-depth badge compared to the various items to choose from for the somewhat Canadian equivalent.


BTW: There are no "collecting badges" lised for the Canadian:

Rover Scouts (Ages 18-26)
Extreme Adventure (14-17)
Venturer Scouts (14-17)

--->Here is a great "hint" website making it easier for those wanting their "coin collecting badge" in the USA:

"This page gives simple explanations and hints on how a scout, usually ages 11-17 could complete the requirements to earn his Coin Collecting Merit Badge"

https://www.money.org/explore-the-w...requirements

If I recall correctly, the coin collecting badge was the only one I ever earned "on my own." I think every other one was earned at camp, on retreat, or in some sort of directed effort. I chose to pursue and pursued coin collecting myself.

Not only do I need to get out the old handbook, but I need to get out the sash to see what memories are released. While I am at it, I will grab the belt with my skill awards.