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Sportyperson

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    When I turned 50...
    When I turned 50, I realized that I was at the 2/3rd junction of my life. My children are still quite young yet, so I needed to give them the collecting fever, or what I have collected will end up on the market and in a lot of other people's collections. Now I have started my children on the path of collecting. Hopefully, that won't happen to all of my coins. I have collected primarily NGC, so I started my daughter with PCGS coins. It is a nice way to break the collection. I still have some PCGS coins myself, but at least the majority of them will be in her collection.
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    Fueling the fire

    By Sportyperson,

    Keeping my children interested is something that I hope to keep in the family tradition.
    My brother tried to get his kids into coin collecting. He got them to finish putting together a set of Memorial pennies. They completed it like it was a job, rather than an adventure. The quicker they got it done, the quicker they could go out and play. I want my children to get more out of it than that, so I give a little, and teach them as I go. I don't know if that will keep their interest, but we'll see.
    I bought some coins from another grading company for my children to give away for christmas. They were less than $2.00 a coin and graded The 1976 P Kennedy Half Dollars as MS 70. I was teaching my daughter to grade them. Not a single one was was even close to being MS 70. I pulled out an NGC MS65 Kennedy to compare them to. The NGC was a much better coin. Now mind you, she is only six, but her comment was "Who grade these junky old coins as perfects?"
    My son is 4 years old. Last week I was going over some coins with my daughter. He asked me where his coin was. He said "I want a coin." So I gave him a graded coin from a grading company fitted for a 4 year old. They claimed that it was an MS 70 as well. funny how all of these other grading companies can find perfect coins from a pile of S***!
    Anyways, if anyone knows tricks to keeping small kids interested in coins, plz let me know.
  4. Sportyperson
    With our children in mind, we sometimes try to set up collections.
    I know that I have done my journals about my children so far, and this one is no exception. Well, when I turned 50, I realized that 2/3rds of my life was over, and I have to leave my children something other than bills. My father didn't include me in his coin collecting life, and I don't want to do that to my children.
    With our children in mind, we sometimes try to set up collections. Some are small, and some are large, but most of ours ultimately go to our children.
    How do we gift our coins to our children so they don't expect us to supply all of their coins, and not have to work for theirs. I try to give them some on each birthday, and other hollidays. Then I try to teach them about other coins so they can find some collections of their own. Others have given me some good advise and I want to incorperate it into my children's learning. Thanx.
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    I don't know the way to shoot my coins to proudly display them.
    I am displaying two fo my brother's Double Eagles because he would like to sell them. We tried to photograph them for excellant display, but they came out lousy. I tried to shoot them with the highest resolution possible on my digital camera, then compress (or decompress?) them to 120K to upload, but that didn't work. The pics came out unusable. I tried to shoot for e-mail, and that didn't work. They came out fuzzy. So... How do I do it? I need to know so I can display my other own coins in the best possible light for display. I tried to scan them, but that didn't work either for some of the best looking pics.
  6. Sportyperson
    I don't know the way to shoot my coins to proudly display them.
    I am displaying two fo my brother's Double Eagles because he would like to sell them. We tried to photograph them for excellant display, but they came out lousy. I tried to shoot them with the highest resolution possible on my digital camera, then compress (or decompress?) them to 120K to upload, but that didn't work. The pics came out unusable. I tried to shoot for e-mail, and that didn't work. They came out fuzzy. So... How do I do it? I need to know so I can display my other own coins in the best possible light for display.
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    Why is it that the burnished NGC coins aren't labeled as Burnished?
    Why is it that the burnished NGC coins I have, like my Silver Eagles aren't idenitfied as "Burnished"? For instance, Proof is identified as PF, and Mint State is identified as MS, so why can't Burnished be identified as BMS? The label dosen't even state "Burnished" on it. My eyes aren't as good as they used to be, so I have a difficult time identifying burnished coins from some mint state coins. I know that it is the surface preperation and they are supposed to look much nicer, but in MS69 both are very similar to me. It seems to be that there are some people who are not in the hobby that have a hard time knowing the differance, especially if they have never heard or seen a burnished coin. Believe me, there are those who have neither seen nor heard of that kind of coin! If a grading coin service can identify differances in other types of coins, then why can't they identify the burnished series?
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    To join the Collector Society, the minimum age is 14, a raging teenager......
    To join the Collector Society, the minimum age is 14. By that time your kid has hormones kicked in and is a raging teenager. To get them to do something with you is a miracle, much less to sit down at the computer and/or discuss coins.
    My question is this; Can we as a society get the age lowered to age 4? 6? or 8? If so, we have several years to get them into working with and/or performing with coin activities, and start to display some pride for coin collecting.
    My 8 year old child will sit down every night and work on webkinz over the internet, but will not work on coins over the internet. If we as a society want to get the world of coins into the next generation, then we have to get them interested with tools they use. Computers and the internet are their tools, unlike our generation.
    The society has to get some "kid orientated" elements built into their programing. There are three immediate things that come to mind. First, Webkinz gives challenges that are kid orientated, like games with prizes. We can perform some games. Have a couple of games that makes kids come back every night to get a weekly prize (like Webkinz). They can get kids into the "pocket change" out today, and start the "spark" at a tender age b4 those crazy Teenage years kick in. P.S. Even the Mint recognizes this and has a kid oriented section on their site.
    Second, Badges are attached to any organization. The Army gives badges to privates. Webkinz gives badges to kids for various activities. The coin Society can give badges to members and kids. One easy badge can be years as a member. For kids start with a monthly badge. Give them incentives to continue a collection. For example, give the usual three placements, then give every kid who joins in a competition a badge, not just the first three. These badges move over with them into the adult arena.
    Third give kids their own control panel with easier collections for the coins that they are collecting. In the Mercury Dime collection, there is a single year date, along with the regular year date collection. Give the kids some collections like that.
    I am sure that others can come up with other suggestion, but we all have to get behind an idea b4 it can get attention. Please start and join a movement for our kids in our society. Without you spreading this to a movement, nothing will happen!
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    I have been wondering about if I should put coins into...
    I have been wondering about if I should put coins into the one coin per date or the full set. I have collected several coins lately, and wondered which is the better way to go. I have some pretty bad dates, such as AU 58, then I have some average dates such as MS 66, with everything inbetween. My collection isn't spectacular, but I am proud of it. Sooooo, which way to go? Both with the best in the One per Date, or just the one I have now?
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