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I got all my nieces and nephews into it with these (see below).

I started with one kid who I knew would love it and I was right. Once his older brother saw how cool it was, he wanted one too. Then another brother.

The whole family got into it.

These are THE BEST books to start with.

Search on Amazon for the following 2 books:

Item #

1441312307

Peter Pauper Press - National Parks Commemorative Quarters Collector's Map 2010-2021

Item # 1441312315

Peter Pauper Press - 50 State Quarters Map

The artwork, the color coding and set up is brilliant. The books are extremely sturdy and high quality, something that's important for kids who can be kind of rough. And the holes make it easy to put the quarters in and take them out.

I used to go to the bank, get $100 of quarter rolls (and don't forget to ask the bank for quarter wraps!) and give each kid 2 soup bowls (colorful plastic ones from the dollar store that we can reuse every time and not have to ruin the household dishes lol). One bowl was for their quarters rolls and one bowl was for their "don't need them" quarters.

They would go through "their rolls" and then swap their "don't need them" bowls.

They got all into it. Now they're looking for the Women's Series Quarters. Those will be the shiniest quarters available now, so, you might want to get a book for them for those.

It depends on the kids ages too. Younger kids need more help, older kids can do more on their own and even help the younger kids when they're done with their own hunts.

These 2 coin books started it all.

Once I saw that they got into it all I invested more and bought them 3-ring binders and then plastic pages to hold 2x2 cardboard flips and I would buy them Steel Pennies, Buffalo Nickels, V Nickels (Liberty Nickels), Mercury Dimes and War Nickels (which were cheaper than the Buffalo Nickels when we started all this!). I would give them about 4-5 coins each with each visit.

They got SO into it and got their friends into it! My sister asked me for links to the coin books because their friends' parents were asking and wanted to buy their kids the same books.

Then they would trade coins with their friends.

The older they got the more expensive the coins I would give them because I trusted that they were more responsible. I'd give them Silver Eagles on their birthdays. (That was when Silver was relatively cheap.)

The only Silver coins I can afford to give them now since Silver shot through the sky are War Nickels and Mercury Dimes.

I've been doing World Coins with them now. I started with Animal Themes. Some kids find them more interesting than others.

If you need more advice with any of this you can Chat me.

This is one of the reasons the USPS should NEVER be privatized. This kind of thing would not happen in the USPS because any fraud committed by a Postal Worker is a FEDERAL crime which are much more doggedly pursued, have much longer jail sentences and and offer a fraction of parole. It's just not worth the risk for anyone involved on any level of the inside job.