RememberSchiff Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) Though today, numismatics are fewer in number. Link below has a brief history of the Coin Collecting Merit Badge and an offer from the American Numismatic Association https://coinweek.com/us-coins/young-numismatists-and-the-coin-collecting-merit-badge/ Edited August 19, 2020 by RememberSchiff title change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAHAWK Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Shocking! When will it end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Yep. I earned that MB. One of my "specialties" was the Franklin half dollar. My dad had dealings with our local bank, and one of the tellers (wife of a Lion's Club member, in which my dad was very active) had nothing much to do one afternoon (!) and took it upon herself to scan several hundred (!!) dollars worth of halves and found the one date I was looking for.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RememberSchiff Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Me too. I had a steel penny in my thrifty collection. My $0.02, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Oh, let me share a coin horror story. While working as a Transit Bus Driver, in rush hour, it was not unusual for folks to pay the fare with a handful of coins, carefully dribbled into the electric farebox. I had a lady board and proceed to unroll a penny roll and carefully line'm up into the slot. It took a few seconds for me to realize THEY WERE BRIGHT UNCIRCULATED STEEL CENTS. I put my hand over the farebox and asked her where she had got that roll. She responded out of her husbands desk drawer, as she needed money for the farebox. I explained to her that each of those "pennies" were probably worth a couple of dollars EACH. She still had about 2/3 of the roll left, but I explained that neither I nor her would ever see those pennies again..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yknot Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Horror story II : My nephew while visiting one summer raided a coin jar I'd kept since I was a kid into which I threw every steel penny, wheat ear penny, Mercury dime, buffalo nickel, and silver quarter that I found. He kept asking for snack and ice cream money and while I thought he was snagging the random bucks I left all over he was actually fascinated with the coin jug. I was standing with him one afternoon in front of the ice cream truck when I saw what he had in his hand. I said, "Holy Cow! Where'd you find those?" and he said, "In the jug in your office" LOL.. Thank goodness the really important stuff was boxed away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 @RememberSchiff suggest title change GTSS does not prohibit numismatics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David CO Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 4 hours ago, RichardB said: @RememberSchiff suggest title change GTSS does not prohibit numismatics. It may not be prohibited, but as a traditionalist, I still prefer old mismatics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RememberSchiff Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 10 hours ago, RichardB said: @RememberSchiff suggest title change GTSS does not prohibit numismatics. ??? okay... On 8/17/2020 at 11:35 PM, TAHAWK said: Shocking! When will it end? ...flautists, vexillophiles...oh the humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeptic Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 After my parents passed, I was cleaning out drawers and collected a trove of coins, many silver. I checked the dates against an old coin catalogue, then took them to a local dealer and let him know I had checked the dates. Three, I think, of the silver ones were worth more as collector items than the silver, and he took that into account. I ended up with close to $400 in silver content, plus a few bucks for some older pennies. I still have a jar of the lead ones I think, just for fun. Had a smaller jar that I took to scouts and new boys were given on when we did our first review. Have run out of those now. Most had no idea what it was. It is a good thing falerists are not banned, or memorabilia collectors would be in a panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattR Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 What are coins? I mean, credit cards are starting to become obsolete. My wife would go nuts if I started a collection. I already have many collections - old tools, old cameras, old calculators and the biggest: old junk. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAHAWK Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 "Coins"? The items replacing paper currency of small denominations in First World nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattR Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 12 minutes ago, TAHAWK said: "Coins"? The items replacing paper currency of small denominations in First World nations. Kind of like how this one is? Unfortunately, I haven't used bills or coins since covid started. Neither the hardware stores nor grocery stores are too keen on them. Ahh, to go someplace that uses cash .... Some day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yknot Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, MattR said: What are coins? I mean, credit cards are starting to become obsolete. So true. Most of the scouts and families in our unit use Venmo, CashApp or something like it. No one writes checks or uses cash much anymore. The good side of it is that I see younger and younger kids learning how to manage their own funds on their cell phones. The bad side is that it's yet another reason why it's getting hard to unplug them. Edited August 19, 2020 by yknot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RememberSchiff Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 19 minutes ago, yknot said: No one writes checks or uses cash much anymore. I like free checking, a paper trail, and the ability to cancel a check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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