12.0121 and 22 – Boeing Coin Collecting Show and Merit Badge Op
From the Seattle eTotem January edition:
Boeing Employees Coin Club help with Merit Badge
At the Boeing Employees Coin Club – Annual Coin Show on January 21st and 22nd the club is going to have a couple of tables set up for the Young Numismatists (YN’s). The goal is to educate and promote the hobby and to make the coin show more interesting for them to participate in. There is going to be a ‘getting started’ display case showing a couple of small easily collectible sets (without having to spend a small fortune as a kid). A video display of how coins are made from design to die and minting will be showed numerous times throughout the show along with how currency is printed. Table/door prizes for the YNs will be given out to each visiting kid.
One of the tables will be set up so a YN/Scout can have an individual merit badge ‘clinic’ so Scouts can work on and nearly complete their merit badge requirements. This table will also include a penny search as the Scout needs to collect a set of coins from their birth year to the current year (pending availability). For the YN’s feeling up to the ‘challenge’ and wanting to see more of the coin show, there is a planned treasure hunt to complete out a 2011 type set from penny to half dollar. Those returning to show their card/type set coins collected to the YN table will get the remaining dollar coin (as supply allows) to complete the set.
For Scouts to complete the merit badge at the coin show, they will need to bring in 5 state quarters (requirement 6) and a set of coins from their birth year to 2011 (option 9d; Scouts who have collections that fulfill 9 a,b, or c are welcomed to bring them instead). The rest of the requirements will be covered at the coin show.
Details:
January 21-22, 2012
Boeing Employees’ Coin Club Show
Kent Commons
525 – 4th Ave. N.
Kent, WA
For more information please contact David Buehler.
There is no cost for the show or the merit badge instruction.
Covered parking is free at the courthouse.
Note: if you are working on your Geocaching badge, there are at least 4 caches within walking distance.