Coin Case System For Kids?

if it is simply bullion and other similar type coins, I would recommend, 2x2's, and the plastic pages for them, that way you can put them in binders, and you can put many different size coins in 2x2's, and they all fit into the plastic pages.

Thanks gang - yes, there will be other gifts to go along with the coins :) I'm not a complete ogre!

I was kind of hoping that I could find something that would have a display type box (seems like I saw a silver eagle tray system from Lighthouse the other night when I was going way down the internet rabbit-trail). My kids love containers and special storage boxes and at their age, a treasure box or something less utilitarian may help spark interest (after all, as mentioned above, coins are a buzzkill when you're six years old). I like the binder idea above as well as pre-labeling the empty slots to build anticipation.

Thanks for the Wizard coin supply mention - I'm on that site now - love it!

My suggestion is sort of negative. My experience with giving anything in coins to very young kids is a bad mistake. In some instances it may end up OK. But my experience is in the end, they just don't care and end up selling it all. I used to give as many as 14 sets of either Proof or Uncirc sets away for Christmas. I stopped now since I found out all have been sold off. Very possibly in some cases your gifts will end up as part of a collection. I hope so. Otherwise with today type kids your better off giving them electronic games.

Hey Carl - I can't disagree with you in principle. Any coins I give, at least unless I feel like one or the other of the kids have developed a coin collecting gene, will be bullion "caliber" stuff only - precisely for the reasons you stated (that and the fact that I'm not much of a numismatist myself).

The kids get WAY TOO MUCH plastic junk at each gift giving occasion as it is. While I don't plan to stop giving them said plastic junk in its entirety, I figure one less plastic bauble in exchange for a random Canadian Maple Leaf or Silver Eagle (uncirculated - not proof) won't be something they miss. Best case scenario, they develop an interest in coin collecting in general. Worse case is that when they go off to college they'll have $1000 in silver that they can either keep or sell.

My desire for the coin capsules (I bought some 2x2 from lighthouse) is so they can look at and handle the coins easily (and if they want to take them out of the cases they can) without getting them all scratched up in a desk drawer. My desire for the "treasure box" is to have it "feel" a little more like a collection that they can add to one by one and see it grow.

Anyway - thanks for the advice gang! My son thought his 2019 ASE was pretty neat last week for his birthday. Of course he was way more interested in the Legos - which was to be expected. But we talked about the minting process and the silver purity (which kicked off a quick homeschool lesson in metal smelting etc...). Fun stuff.