Collecting Coins For My Child

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It is a nice idea you have, but in my opinion the collecting bug needs to develop from the inside too, as well as from getting nice gifts. He is obviously too young now, but eventually you might try to engage your child in the designs and let him make choices, among other things.

You should easily find mint sets or collectible coins on ebay, given that most coin stores are temporarily shut down.

stay away from the mint issued stuff (like the ones you've shown). commonly known as "granny candy".

they are shiny and cool and expensive now, but in a year or 2 you will find them for sale for half of the issued price.

education is key, if you don't want to spend the time getting to known the hobby then you could be throwing money away.

if it is for fun, like a yearly coin set for every birthday, then cool - enjoy it for the fun factor but don't look at this as an investment

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The last few years, I have been buying coins for my niece and nephews, Grandniece, and Grandnephew. I didn't really want to get all the coins in a mint sets: lots of coins, and having to store them. For the older kids I bought ASE for their birthyear. For those just born, I usually give them a Littleton Coin Company showpak for their first Christmas:

I would buy the child some common used coins, like a bag of 100 different or a pound of mixed coins.
Many cheaper coins from far away places would be much more fun than just one expensive granny bait coin like that.

Buying a small child a collectible silver coin, will bring little interest as they will play with it and get an ear bashing for destroying the finish or they will not they are damaging it, whereas a bag of old copper and nickel coins that are cheap and easy to find, he/she can play with them all the time.

I think $20 should get you at least 100 decent older coins (Try the cheap coin boxes at a dealer if you have one or buy a mission mix off an ebay dealer).

The more coins from different countries the better as the child can learn about the places they coins are from and even better, include some worn old British pennies or something over 100 years old and there you have some history too.

So much better than overpriced collectables and NCLT stuff.

Then you need to wait until they are 3 and buy them some playmoney

Those expensive coins though will fail to make much meaning until the early teens at earliest.

I still say - at 3 or 4 buy them some play money (I am unsure of gender, but usually say he, but if the chils is she I will no doubt get lynched by angry feminists - so I err on the side of caution).

5 to 6 familiarise themselves with real money

8 or so - get the 100 or so common world coins

By 12 you will know if they love coins or are just into video games, the net etc.

Not before 3 as little children could swallow coins and choke on them.