Don't discard junk common coins

I sorted through some bulk coins and pulled out about 100-200 of each of these
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1089.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces936.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces861.html

  To me these are kinda worthless, and I am sorting my coins into bulk category to sell and didn't want to send these with it. So I was wondering what to do with these "worthless" coins? Then I remembered when I was about 18 and my world coin collection was only about 50 coins I found one of these in some change https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces861.html and I thought it was Awesome, I was glad to have it!
 So what I am going to do is leave such coins in playgrounds and other random spots where kids might find them, I am hoping to peak the interest of coin collecting.
   Just imagine if there were only 1,000,000 world coin collectors in the world. then there would not be enough of these to go around. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1089.html

  Any one want to join me and pass out "junk" coins?

I got started in coin collecting by someone giving me a Netherlands 1 guilder (they told me it was a Dutch quarter) I still have the coin, and the sense of wonder it gave me then is a fond memory.

BTW, did you mean 1,000,000,000 collectors for the Dominican coin?

Yes, That's what I meant, Thanks

  * 500,000,000 would be a good number lets go with that.

Quote: redsmithstudiosI sorted through some bulk coins and pulled out about 100-200 of each of these
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1089.html

Not sure everybody got it
Not me so far

Amazing that all swappers want to get the biggest coins of the Partner


Standard coins are also quite interesting, I think

I would like to give these coins to KIDs around my area  ..each type 1 coins and encourage then to exchange/swap with other foreign coins ..

If not, you can send those coins to me - I will do it for you in my area ..

 Hey David - check the boy scouts or girl scouts; I think they have a badge. This year cookies I asked a den mother and she said I think so. I told her if any of them want I could get them 20-30 coins and help id them. Gave her my e-mail, but never got back to me. I will have to look in on this more. yours daryl

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Coin_Collecting

If there was 1 billion coin collectors, or every sixth person on the planet, then it would just be a thing everyone does. If we count that a large part of the world is too poor for it, maybe every fifth or fourth person in Europe.
Wouldn't that take some of the fun out of it?
Imagine the commercialization it would cause! Innumerable commemoratives every year, which would reduce them to junk. Scary.

Quote: pileborgIf there was 1 billion coin collectors, or every sixth person on the planet, then it would just be a thing everyone does. If we count that a large part of the world is too poor for it, maybe every fifth or fourth person in Europe.
Wouldn't that take some of the fun out of it?
Imagine the commercialization it would cause! Innumerable commemoratives every year, which would reduce them to junk. Scary.

I didn't think about it like that, but the reason for collecting is for history and culture, not commemoratives. To me the commemorative craze is junk and I think it discourages true collecting.
But one day all these commemoratives will be history and tell of our culture.

 Isn't it our job to try and encourage young new collectors, that's all I am really getting at here.

If you drop 100 coins and just one of them is found by someone who will be happy about it, then I suppose it's worth it.

The rest might be dug up by some archeologist in 500 years (if our civilization is still around then, which I very much doubt (but that's another topic)), and then you'd have made at least two people happy.

And to make two people happy is not to be frowned upon!

So you do have a point.