Coin Collecting for Kids
by Steve Otfinoski
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Book Reviews of Coin Collecting for Kids
Book Review: Great Book, Could Have Better Spiral Bound Construction
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Book Review: This is the book to get your kids interested in coin collecting!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been looking for a book to help my 4 year old son begin collecting coins. He saw me with my collection and he wanted to start his own. I wanted something informative with coin stories that are interesting to a kid and had slots to put the coins in. He actually can read already so this book was perfect for him. I bought one last December for Christmas. He loved it. I would have bought more but I wanted to see it first. It quickly sold out and for months it remained sold out with used ones being sold for $100 or more (no kidding). Now that it's back in stock, I'm getting one for my 11 year old niece and a couple of extras to use as gifts.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that it doesn't have a place for the Sacagawea dollar even though it has all the Presidential dollars and the new 2009 Lincoln cents. Also, a section for putting your child's birth year coins has a slot fitted to the Eisenhower dollar (last struck in 1978) and not the Sacagawea or Presidential dollar. Your kid would have to be over 30 in order to complete a birth year set. So that slot is a waste.
Otherwise, it's definitely the best thing out there to get kids started.
UPDATE TO MY ORIGINAL REVIEW (03/12/2010): The latest edition has the dollar slot on the birth year page now fitted for the Sacagawea and Presidential dollars. So they fixed that problem! I upped my ranking to 5 stars from 4.
Book Review: Nice stories, bad construction
Summary: 2 Stars
This book has a nice layout for introducing youngsters to coins. Lots of information told in interesting ways. The kicker for me is that the book keeps falling apart. *Every* time I open the book, the rings came out of the front page and I had to put the rings back into the individual holes. This also means that I have to do all the work for my children, one of which is 8 years old and doesn't want my help with anything. She quickly lost interest in it because it couldn't be hers. The slots for the coins are very hard to put coins in. My thumbs hurt after pressing on the quarter as hard as I can with another quarter to try to get the coins in. The weird thing is, there are also slots that aren't tight enough and the coins fall out and you have to keep putting the coin back in. There is no place to put coins minted after 2008. So the 2009 quarter series is not included in the set for quarters.
These complaints seemed minor, at first, but the more I use it, the more frustrating the book is. I keep thinking, did the book designers ever actually touch this book? And ultimately, if this is a book that only an adult can put together, how is it for kids? My daughter certainly gave up on it awhile ago, and she really liked coins.
Book Review: A great coin collecting book for kids
Summary: 5 Stars
From the State Quarters to the Presidential dollar coins, the penny's before penny's, and coins from the century, this book has it. With slots for coins from your birth year on the first page, it also has information about a coin, and a scale on what condition your coins are in. The next page tells about how coins are made, and has slots for penny's from 1970 to 2010. Coins from the century are on the next page. Starting of with slots for the Liberty penny, it continues on going through Mercury dimes, Franklin half-dollars and the Eisenhower dollar coin. It also gives you information about the coin. Information about cool coins in the U.S., the oldest coins you've found, and the new Westward nickel series is on the next page. The Presidential dollar coins are next, with slots all the way up to Barack Obama. This page also has slots for the new Lincon Bicentenial pennies. The last page of the book, of course, has the 50 state quarters. The only disadvantage to this page is that it doesn't have slots for the new territory quarters. This book is a brilliant book for coin collecting, and I recomend it for anyone intrested in coins.Book Review: Excellent! Incredible value!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book as a birthday gift for each of my grandsons ages 8 and 11. They loved it and have been saving their money like crazy just so they can put the coins in the book. I thought that after a couple of months the novelty would wear off, but it hasn't.
I originally ordered this book along with a book for the statehood quarters. But when I got the package, I was delightfully surprised to see that this book was so big, and it had spaces for all the state quarters too, in addition to spaces for the new presidential dollars, pennies, coins for the child's birth year, oldest coins, rare coins, and so much more. I returned the other book because everything was already included in Coin Collecting for Kids. It is easily worth double of what I paid for it. It is very educational and instructive, and it makes coin collecting a lot of fun.
After seeing how much the boys love this book, my two granddaughters (ages 5 and 7) want to start coin collecting too, so I'm ordering one for each of them.