Winter Coin Show -- Jan 31, Feb 1 & 2, 2025 Next Meeting January 2025 exact date TBA
Winter Coin Show -- Jan 31, Feb 1 & 2, 2025 Next Meeting January 2025 exact date TBA
Look carefully at some of your coin collection.
1850 3 cent coin.
What are these Lady Liberties wearing?
A cap called the Phrygian cap
April 2, 1793 the US Congress passed the US Coinage Act. It required all US coins to carry an image of Libert on their obverse. In 1946 that requirement was changed and most modern coins do not carry Liberty's image.
The most common way Liberty is shown on coins is dressed in a gown and wearing a Phrygian cap. Which represents liberty. Called "the Cap of Liberty" during the French Revolution. It had been first used in ancient Greece and later worn by freed slaves to represent their emancipation.
Low Country Coin Club encourages young people of all ages to take a look at the world of numismatism - that is COIN COLLECTING. We want to do all we can to encourage young men and women to become a part of our group.
A YOUNG NUMISTMATIST is officially considered anyone under 18 that collects coins or related collectibles.
Sometimes young people will follow a parent into the hobby if he or she is a collector. But even when a parent is not a collector, we want young people to find out about this hobby.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have merit badges for coin collecting and often the taste of collecting in quest of the merit badge can lead to a lifetime hobby.
But this is just one part of it.
This page is new for our Low Country Coin Club, but it is just a beginning. If you are interested in collecting, if you are interested in passing your collecting knowledge on to future generations of collectors, we urge you to visit our club meetings or come to our next coin show.
There is always a table (or two) for young collectors at our shows. Look for the YN section when you are there.
This page will be posting special information for young people. Check it out occassionally. You'll never know what you might miss.
Come by and see what coin collecting is all about.
I heard rumors that everyone had a lot of fun at the July show.
We'll do it again at our February 1, 2025 show.
Scavenger hunt on Saturday. You can participate anytime during the day. You don't have to be present to win just be sure we have your contact information.
There is a table or two just for YN's (collectors 18 and under.) You can hang out there (with your parents' permission) while the old folks tour the show. Look for the big sign.
Check this out
United States Mint@usmintThe United States Mint has 17 free, games FOR you. You will have fun learning about coins and more.
Play today at https://usmint.gov/learn/kids/games…. @ANACoins