speaking of racist stuff

[rmd]

I ordered a couple of pounds of foreign coins as a gift for my nephew A's kids for Christmas. I also gave them money, but the two kids are getting to the age where I feel like I can provide a quirky influence on them, so, yeah, big batch of coins. I told them that I needed them to find out where they were all from. :)

Before I gave them to the kids, I went thru a bunch of them. It was a really impressive collection -- an old 1905 English penny that was clearly someone's "lucky penny" because it had been worn down almost flat, a coin from Vichy France, coins from Jamaica, pre-revolution Cuba, assorted other European coins, etc. And a coin from Nazi Germany.

I kind of expected it to burn my hand, like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

An excellent gift! It was something like that which got me started when I was young. :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, i didn't want to be "HERE, CHILD, PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE COIN COLLECTION", but it seemed instead a very open ended kind of thing - coins, geography, history, hell even metallurgy (one of the kids is in a "rocks" phase right now), and the older one even has a microscope to look at them extra close up.