Getting kids interested in coins

This will take an investment of about $10-15 per kid, but if he has any potential to become a coin collector, this will reveal it. First, buy two or three rolls of ciculated pennies for each kid and tell them to open and search them. Whoever finds the oldest penny will win a special prize. Most likely the oldest penny will be from the early 1970's, but maybe some kid will find a wheat back.

lol, this is just my perspective on it as a 13 year old boy, Girls are to cought up with clothes, makeup, boys, and other stuff. and to kids, coin collecting is well..... kinda nerdy. so, just a few reasons i could think of.

codydude815 wrote: lol, this is just my perspective on it as a 13 year old boy, Girls are to cought up with clothes, makeup, boys, and other stuff. and to kids, coin collecting is well..... kinda nerdy. so, just a few reasons i could think of.

paul1980 wrote: codydude815 wrote: lol, this is just my perspective on it as a 13 year old boy, Girls are to cought up with clothes, makeup, boys, and other stuff. and to kids, coin collecting is well..... kinda nerdy. so, just a few reasons i could think of.   I suspected coin collecting was kind of nerdy until I attended my first coin show. Now I know coin collecting is for nerds. Three-quarters of the members were senior citizens and the other quarter looked like they were pulled straight from the 'Far Side Galleries' stip. I was the best-looking guy there out of a crowd of about 50 people.   I don't care though. I still collect coins and have not been turned away even the least bit. I like the hobby. Nerds can be interesting people (either that, or incredibly annoying and boring).   My point is that if your kids think coin collecting is nerdy, just remind them that no one else has to know about it. It's not like a bad wardrobe, a pocket protector, or an abnornally high-pitched voice. If you want to do it, do it. If you think it is nerdy and don't want other people to know (considering you are an adolescent who places some value on your social life), just don't tell other people about it. It's not like it is going to change your personality or anything.

Edited by codydude815 - 24 Feb 2007 at 2:08am

Well this post started out as would any that does not even attempt to equalize the male/female interest in coins. So very much depends on how a girl or boy is raised to make them the way they are. Of course pier pressure will eventually enter into the picture but not for the early years. Now some examples of just the opposite are some of the farm people I've known, wife included. They are usually equal in many things and hobbies are included. I've gone to coin shows in farm lands and find a large proportion of women. I also find them at gun stores, auto repair stores and a lot of other places where the average city person just can't go because it's not lady like. Most city people are the guilty ones as noted in the first post hear where it seams to be directed for males only. People that raise girls to be just girls will end up with just girls. If you take a girl to coin shows, gun shows, knife shows, car shows and talk to them as if they were not someone that should be in a kitchen, you'ld find yourself with a female that may outdo you in many things. I'm a man but I've had my share of being outdone by women with guns at shooting ranges. My wife rotates tires on my car, changes oil on the car and can sew anything. She makes all my ties. She also loves coins. She is a great dancer and could probably drop a lot of guys out there with one punch besides being a pretty good looker too. With our country becoming more and more women envolved you may want to consider that the reason you don't see to many women coin collectors is the men are guilty of this. Try teaching a girl about coins instead of complaining they don't care.

ShinyDiCoinGal wrote:  her response was 'no, I'm going to sell them to the kids at my school - they're so dumb they'll think the coins are gold. That was funny and scary all at the same time.

ShinyDiCoinGal wrote: I was at a coinshow recently and a young girl (10ish) was picking through a loose pile of foreign coins- picking out all of the unique brass looking denominations.  Sitting beside her I asked if she liked that country, the coin, etc., her response was 'no, I'm going to sell them to the kids at my school - they're so dumb they'll think the coins are gold. That was funny and scary all at the same time.