Where have all the pint-size collectors gone?
stonej
Mr. Jaggers
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0112/p17s01-lifp.html
I hope that Mike Heffner enjoys his high-and-mighty, holier-than-thou self,
for salting away the box of cards unopened and chastising today's kids for
not having the discipline to do the same thing. More likely is that he
forgot about them and just got lucky when his Mom forced him to finally
clean up his room after 8 years. I would suggest that the vast majority of
kids in his generation lacked the same discipline themselves.
James
Bruce Remick
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Every generation or two sems to lament over what the "kids today" don't do
anymore. When I was growing up, adults lamented that few boys wanted to
build those elaborate airplane models from scratch anymore with their
thousand structural members covered with glue and paper. Or to construct
and fly large kites. Or to experiment with home-built crystal radio sets.
Thirty or forty years from now our kids' children will lament about how so
few "kids today" care about iPods or Wi games anymore. All they care about
is building and studying their commemorative $10 dog dollar coin
collections.
Mr. Jaggers
When I began my teaching career in 1968 I heard parents and other teachers
constantly complaining about the kids. During my last year of teaching in
2001 I heard parents and other teachers constantly complaining about the
kids. Now in 2009 I hear parents and other teachers constantly complaining
about the kids. There's a lesson here somewhere.
James
mazorj
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At which point, some will be asking "Why do we even need a $10 coin
any more? You can't buy anything with it and it's not worth stopping
to pick one up on the street."
Og the Caveman probably groused about kids not wanting to learn to use
the spear and club properly and spending all their time with that
newfangled bow and arrow gadget.
In the immortal words of Sonny and Sher, "The beat goes on... the beat
goes on..."
James Weston
my teaching career in 1968 I heard parents and other teachers
> constantly complaining about the kids.
Yeah, but back in '68 you didn't hear much about teachers dorking the kids
like you do now.
Bob Golden
"stonej" <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote in message
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Maybe since my kids all lost their iPods, gameboys, Wii, and Nintendo DS for
not doing their jobs this last week, they might think about coins again.
RWF
"stonej" <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote in message
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My local coin shop actually treats the kids who come in with respect,
going thru his junk silver to pick out Walkers or Franklin half dollars
for them, etc.
He has numerous "junk" boxes ($.25, $.50 and $1 assortments) that the
kids can go thru to their heart's content.
In his $1 "junk" box I actually found some early 60's prrof Roosies in
pristine condition (they were in flips).
Richard L. Hall
showed up at my door with a friend and his friend's two sons (aged 10 and
12). The kids had received some coin books from their grandparents and were
becoming interested in collecting. So they wanted me to impart some of my
coin knowledge to them.
We chatted for about 2 1/2 hours about coins and collecting. The father and
the kids and their mother returned a few weeks later with a birthday cake
for me and we talked again about coins. The kids at the time were
interested in Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels. I suggested that a
collection of circulation strike clad Roosevelts and clad Washingtons also
could be completed.
I let them go through the 12 rolls or so of Lincolns wheats I had and I let
them take them home with them to look through. I knew they'd be able to
find almost a complete set from 1940 to 1958 minus the steels and the 1954-P
and 1955-S. I also let them borrow my electronic scale so they could tell
the difference between the various 1982 cents and pointed out my web site
that shows the differences between the large and small dates. I also gave
them a Redbook and some copies of "Coins" magazine and told them about local
coin shows. They called me a few times and came over to show me what they
had bought at the coin shows and at a local coin shop I had recommended.
They asked about grades and I showed them a book I had about grading. I
gave them the book to take home. I showed them my type set and a few other
coins I had.
Jeff, the 10 year old, called in mid-January and said they had been to a
coin show and the coin shop and wanted to come over to show me what they had
bought. I told them about another coin show the last week in January. I
gave Jeff, who was still interested in Lincolns, the 1968S-1974S memorials
that he needed for his set. Chris, the 12-year old had become interested in
Indians so I gave him an good 1864 Bronze Indian that I had lying around.
The father suggested to Jeff that instead of my giving him coins he should
buy them from me. He proved an astute negotiator and bought about $20 worth
of coins. He could probably sell them to a dealer for more than he paid for
them.
I was at the coin show in late January and, as I was talking a dealer I had
done some business with in the past, I noticed that Chris was standing next
to me. He wanted to show me his Indian book and the Flying Eagles he had
bought at the show. I showed him, using the dealer's stock what to look for
in Indians as far as color and grade went. He told me his father and
brother were at another dealer's table so I went over to talk to them. The
father, who years ago had had some coin books, said that he was getting
interested in completing a type set like the one I had showed him.
So it looks like here we may have three new collectors. The kids, at least,
seem really interested in their collections. And the father seems to
encouraging that interest.
--
Richard
My coin Links:
http://coins.richlh.com/MyCoinLinks.htm
sgt23
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It is nice to see their are still some good people left in this hobby.
RWF
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> It is nice to see their are still some good people left in this hobby.
Sarge, you baboon, it's "THERE" not "THEIR".
PC
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> > It is nice to see their are still some good people left in this hobby.
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> Sarge, you baboon, it's "THERE" not "THEIR".
The ones I love to hate are "loose" instead of "lose" and "your"
instead of "you're".
I have definitely made the occasional mistake on 'your' and probably
'their' out of sloppiness but I absolutely do not understand how
someone can type something like "you are a looser". What am I
loosening?
mazorj
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Your gonna loose you're mind, if you let it get too you two much!
At least half the population can't write their way out of a wet paper
bag. Chill, man. I gave up that crusade years ago.