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diggin4clad · Oct 23, 2018

I'm a member of a coin club that gives out Walking Liberty half dollars to anyone who makes a display of coins and gives a brief 2-3 minute talk about what the display is about. The meeting was last night and I displayed silver and gold bullion coins from countries around the world. I was awarded a 1946-S Walker for my effort.

cellrdwellr · Oct 23, 2018

Nice addition to the hoard! You must have quite the stash by now... Congrats!

GKL · Oct 23, 2018

That is neat !!!! …….you should give a presentation every meeting ! :lol:

diggin4clad · Oct 23, 2018

GKL said:
That is neat !!!! …….you should give a presentation every meeting !
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The club meets 7 times a year and I give a presentation 4-5 of those meetings. We have one member who displays coins EVERY meeting.

diggin4clad · Oct 23, 2018

cellrdwellr said:
Nice addition to the hoard! You must have quite the stash by now... Congrats!

Thanks, My free Walkers are definitely piling up.

Gauntlet · Oct 24, 2018

Not understanding how it's "free" when you provided a service in exchange?

diggin4clad · Oct 24, 2018

Gauntlet said:
Not understanding how it's "free" when you provided a service in exchange?

FREE because it didn't cost me anything for the Walker. I volunteered to make the display, I wasn't hired to perform a service. Some people, including me, ENJOY being involved in their particular hobby.

bubbaron · Oct 24, 2018

Great post. Thanks for promoting our hobby. Enjoy your new Walker, you earned it. GL & HH.

Mud-puppy · Oct 24, 2018

Looks great there Pal! I will bring this format up to our Board at our next Coin Club meeting... Besides a lot of interesting old guys, We have some young members...teenage and on down to about 8yrs old..Plus we have a dozen or so Detectorist Members that would do a little interesting presentation! Especially for a FREE Walker! Great post!

KiowaRd · Oct 24, 2018

Back when I was in school (over 50 years ago) like a lot of kids I started collecting coins and putting them in the little blue Whitman folders. Then one day I saw that there was a "coin show" in a nearby town. Sounded good so I went.
At the show I saw that one could buy the folders complete with all the slots filled in. That just ruined collecting for me. What fun would it be to purchase a completed folder....
I stopped looking for coins to add to the folders after that. I do still have the folders I started back then.

diggin4clad · Oct 24, 2018

bubbaron said:
Great post. Thanks for promoting our hobby. Enjoy your new Walker, you earned it. GL & HH.

Thanks, Bub

Mud-puppy said:
Looks great there Pal! I will bring this format up to our Board at our next Coin Club meeting... Besides a lot of interesting old guys, We have some young members...teenage and on down to about 8yrs old..Plus we have a dozen or so Detectorist Members that would do a little interesting presentation! Especially for a FREE Walker! Great post!

Thanks Mud, at the November meeting I'll be making a metal detecting presentation showing detector finds and handing out catalogs/literature from White's and Garrett plus a few back issues of W&E Treasure magazine. Our coin club has 5-6 members who detect and a handful of others who seem interested. The idea of the exhibits is to make the meetings more interesting. The pic is the display I made at the coin club back in 2016.

KiowaRd said:
Back when I was in school (over 50 years ago) like a lot of kids I started collecting coins and putting them in the little blue Whitman folders. Then one day I saw that there was a "coin show" in a nearby town. Sounded good so I went.
At the show I saw that one could buy the folders complete with all the slots filled in. That just ruined collecting for me. What fun would it be to purchase a completed folder....
I stopped looking for coins to add to the folders after that. I do still have the folders I started back then.

That's how I started collecting coins back in 1957....Blue Whitman Folders and getting coin rolls from the bank. I still have coins in Whitman folders but not the same ones as back then. I agree that buying a complete collection wouldn't really be much fun....you could always start again.

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