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Coin Collecting for Kids Review
User Submitted Coin Collecting for Kids ReviewsDecember 16, 2008 Good, but could be better Great for adults to teach and HELP kids. The key word here is help. Kids need to be able to read dates, mint marks, and what is written in the book. This is beyond most 6-7 and some 8 year olds This book is based on a great idea, but the final product leaves a lot of room for improvement in the following areas. 1) The book says age 6-12. Under birth year coins, it has a space for a large Silver Dollar(last one made 1978) 2) Binding stretches out turning pages 3) Some holes cut too large and coins fall out 4) Some holes cut too Small and coins are hard for an adult to push in 5) Leaves out the Sacagawea dollar, which is not hard for a kid to find You must decide. I bought 5 for grandchildren. Oldest is 5. The 4 and 5 year old are a challenge, but are worth it to see the excitement they have when we find another coin to go in the book. I will put the other books aside for a few years till the rest are OLDER. September 30, 2008 A great start to collecting anything, complete and kid-friendly I bought one for my 5 y.o son and then bought one for my 9 y.o. daughter because they enjoyed doing the first one so much. It is nice because it is simple to fill in a large portion of the book and the kids feel a sense of accomplishment. There are some rare coins required but not a ton of them. I am finding several on eBay ($2.00 for a rare quarter, etc.) and the kids are saving up to buy a few of them. Have a magnifying glass handy so kids can see the dates on the coins. You'll need a good pile of coins to start with. Your kids will be busy for an hour or so. I find that we put the books away and bring it back out every other month. We also carry around a list of the coins we are missing and keep an eye out for them. This book was in my top 5 purchases of the year so far. August 18, 2008 FANTASTIC!!! This past summer my kids and I sorted, counted, and rolled over $550 in coins. In the process we filled our coin collecting book (the previous version of this one) and I couldn't believe what a great bonding experience this was. I have 3 children 6 1/2, 5, and 3 years old. My 6 1/2 year old was really into this...not so much for my other ones. But, I think they were just a little to young for them. We're on the hunt to fill in all the slots in the book. A TIP: We used glue to keep some of the coins in. They are a little tough to get in the slots, but we used a quarter and pressed the quarter on the coin to oush them into the slot. It's amazing how heavy the book gets when it's full. This was a great memory for me this summer. July 21, 2008 Awesome Gift! I bought this as a kindergarten graduation gift for my daughter. Little did I realize the family bonding it would inspire. She and my husband spent hours sifting through our coins. Then we took it to the grandparents house and they spend hours going through their coins with her. We now have given 3 more as birthday gifts to her friends. The slots work perfectly and the historical information is very well done. It's a gift she'll have for many, many years to come instead of a toy or book she'll outgrow someday. May 19, 2008 Great book, bad binding This is the third time I have purchased this book. What a great way to introduce children to coin collecting. However, with my third purchase, the binding has either changed or I received an older edition. The binding keeps getting caught on the pages but all in all I would still buy the book. However I would look for the version with metal ring binding versus the white plastic covered metal binding I received on this latest book. I would have given the product five stars otherwise. April 13, 2008 Great Book, Could Have Better Spiral Bound Construction This coin book is great! Both my of my kids have one (ages 5 and 9) and they love them. My oldest in particular has really gotten into coin collecting and learning how money is made. It has a special page where you collect coins from your birth year and a statehood quarter from your birth state. Collect all of the statehood quarters and presidential coins. Collect the oldest of each coin that you find with an easy way to change them out if older coins are found. I wish all of the coins had this special feature so you could switch out coins if you found one in better condition. My only real complaint is that the newer versions of these books have a terrible, terrible design for the spiral bound construction that keeps all of the pages in. It is made of metal and comes loose and pages come out. I will have to do what the previous reviewer did and basically connect them back together with something permanent. I just hope it will still look nice once I do that. Actually, I do have one other complaint. I ordered a few of these to give as gifts since the kids really enjoy them and they are not too costly. Most of the books I got from Amazon were not in gift giving condition, meaning they had scratches on the covers and the corners were torn. Amazon was great about refunding though. So, get a book in good condition, fix the spiral and you have a great book with hours of entertaining and learning. April 5, 2008 Great FUn and Educational I would recommend this book for any child interested in coin collecting. It's a very fun book, filled with interesting facts and history about coins, states and presidents. Geared toward kids 9 - 12 years of age, it will help them build a decent coin collection, and maybe encourage them to continue into serious collecting. Would be a great gift for that special child, especially with a few coins already inserted into the holders in the book. February 13, 2008 What a great book This book was much better than I expected. It is a great first coin book. There are inserts for every US coin. I was not expecting it to be so inclusive. You can use it to collect all state quarters - new nickles - President dollars - there are even spots for the new penny's that have not even come out yet. Plus some fun collections (year you were born - oldest of each coin) Plus it has lots of info about making coins. The only issue we found were that some of the coins were VERY tight fits. Wonderful gift that you can keep building on. January 14, 2008 Really interesting for my 9-year-old This was a really great buy. Not only did my 9-year-old daughter gain even more interest in coin collecting, but we spent hours together filling the coin slots with different types of coins, learning the facts about the Presidents and searching everywhere for coins we were missing. My 12-year-old couldn't help but get in on the action also. January 7, 2008 Hit of the Party This was a gift for our 6 year old nephew. He loved it! We spent hours filling in the coins that he already owned. It has a full section for state quarters and presidential dollars. It also has a section for oldest coins, annual pennies, and other interesting sections. My nephew had us all emptying our pockets and the whole family got involved. He was completely fascinated by it. It is of excellent quality and beautifully presented. The only drawback was that some of the coin slots were tight and hard for a 6 year old to press a coin into. Overall, we highly recommend this book. It was a big hit at the party and lots of fun. For more Coin Collecting for Kids reviews click here.
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