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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A couple months ago I heard that my niece had emptied her penny bank and was looking for "old coins". lol So naturally, being the quirky uncle that I am, I sent her some old Peseta's and a set of circulated Spanish euro's. This seemed to have sent her over the edge and now she is talking a lot about coin collecting and looking forward to my visit. lol This summer I will be visiting the family for the first time in years and I am looking forward to age appropriate ideas that the family can continue with a minimum of time, effort and money when I leave again. I am already considering doing the "fill blue folders from pocket change" thing. Is a RedBook to much for a nine year old? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My 9-year old reads the RedBook. I can't say whether he is typical or not (my guess is that he is not). Way to be an awesome uncle! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
536 Posts |
I've found that most kids love variety rather than 20 of the same thing with a different number. You can find many different sized packages of foreign coins for quite cheap that I think most "coin kids" would enjoy. (Heck, I still love getting one now and then.)
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 United States
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Being in Spain,I not sure a Red Book would be to interesting to a YN. It does have good info on coins in general though. I think you should find out what interests your niece,birds-flowers-butterflies you get the idea. There are coins out there with these things on them,that way your niece won't be collecting the same image with a different date. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If she loves old coins, get her a set of old British pennies. One from each ruler, QE II through Victoria. You should be able to get all of them for less than $1 each. You can also get a Napoleon III 10 centimes from the 1850s for pocket change.
If you want to be the coolest uncle ever, you can buy a decent Roman coin from the Constantine , Valentinian, or Theodosian dynasty for a few bucks, or even cheaper if you are willing to spring for a lot.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes the Red Book is a great book for information. However, if you go to the Whitman Publishing web site you would see many, many other books and some might be better for a kid that age. Not sure if you want to start her on US coins though if she is not in the USA. Might be difficult to find lots of coins she would like. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thank you for the suggestions! She is in the states. lol
Sometimes I forget that Spain is under my name. It will be switching to Japan soon!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think she could handle the Red Book. She may not read all the details at that age but with it's pictures it's sure to fire her interest. I did the same thing with two 11 year old twin God Daughters and they loved it! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would recommend getting a State Quarter coin map or a National Park coin map if she is in the states. She can collect the coins out of circulation and it makes a nice wall display. Below is an example of the National Park Coin map of coins that are still being issued until 2021. There is no real value in collecting the State Quarters out of circulation, but it is a lot of fun. There are a couple of State Quarter varieties that do have some value.  Edited by Slider23
05/31/2016 1:09 pm
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Norway
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I really love the idea of those quarter maps. It's a very fun and visual way of collecting. It's much fun to see a collection grow like that. And all coins are really different, too! And why not try the Red Book if you think she might be ready to read it? If she's really into coin collecting then she'd be eager to learn more about it. :) |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Dimes. She will be ten soon enough, and that should pique her interest. You can pull them out of change and many of the silver ones are $2-3 apiece.
Oh, and hugs.
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United States
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Sometimes I forget that Spain is under my name. It will be switching to Japan soon! you need to get some kind of US/whatever country I live in today location marker. like an APO/FPO address. LOL |
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United States
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I second (third, fourth, whatever) the State Quarter ideas, and expand to include the America the Beautiful designs. Pocket change, lots of different designs, plentiful/common but take a while to collect, etc. Gift ideas include year sets of quarters, proofs, etc. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why stop at the State Quarters? Get her a few of the newer National park quarters, especially the 2012 Hawaii Volcanoes issue...  Oh, and a proof set from her birth year is never a bad idea.  |
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United States
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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. |
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