Customer Reviews
Awesome Gift! 
2008-07-21
I bought this as a kindergarten graduation gift for my daughter. Little did I realize the family bonding it would inspire. She and my husband spent hours sifting through our coins. Then we took it to the grandparents house and they spend hours going through their coins with her. We now have given 3 more as birthday gifts to her friends. The slots work perfectly and the historical information is very well done. It's a gift she'll have for many, many years to come instead of a toy or book she'll outgrow someday.
Great book, bad binding 
2008-05-19
This is the third time I have purchased this book. What a great way to introduce children to coin collecting. However, with my third purchase, the binding has either changed or I received an older edition. The binding keeps getting caught on the pages but all in all I would still buy the book. However I would look for the version with metal ring binding versus the white plastic covered metal binding I received on this latest book. I would have given the product five stars otherwise.
Great Book, Could Have Better Spiral Bound Construction 
2008-04-13
This coin book is great! Both my of my kids have one (ages 5 and 9) and they love them. My oldest in particular has really gotten into coin collecting and learning how money is made. It has a special page where you collect coins from your birth year and a statehood quarter from your birth state. Collect all of the statehood quarters and presidential coins. Collect the oldest of each coin that you find with an easy way to change them out if older coins are found. I wish all of the coins had this special feature so you could switch out coins if you found one in better condition.
My only real complaint is that the newer versions of these books have a terrible, terrible design for the spiral bound construction that keeps all of the pages in. It is made of metal and comes loose and pages come out. I will have to do what the previous reviewer did and basically connect them back together with something permanent. I just hope it will still look nice once I do that.
Actually, I do have one other complaint. I ordered a few of these to give as gifts since the kids really enjoy them and they are not too costly. Most of the books I got from Amazon were not in gift giving condition, meaning they had scratches on the covers and the corners were torn. Amazon was great about refunding though.
So, get a book in good condition, fix the spiral and you have a great book with hours of entertaining and learning.
Great FUn and Educational 2008-04-05
I would recommend this book for any child interested in coin collecting. It's a very fun book, filled with interesting facts and history about coins, states and presidents. Geared toward kids 9 - 12 years of age, it will help them build a decent coin collection, and maybe encourage them to continue into serious collecting. Would be a great gift for that special child, especially with a few coins already inserted into the holders in the book.
What a great book 2008-02-13
This book was much better than I expected. It is a great first coin book. There are inserts for every US coin. I was not expecting it to be so inclusive. You can use it to collect all state quarters - new nickles - President dollars - there are even spots for the new penny's that have not even come out yet. Plus some fun collections (year you were born - oldest of each coin) Plus it has lots of info about making coins. The only issue we found were that some of the coins were VERY tight fits. Wonderful gift that you can keep building on.
Really interesting for my 9-year-old 2008-01-14
NEW REVISED EDITION! Newly updated to include Presidential $1 coins and Westward Journey nickels! A colorful, kid-friendly book to introduce children to a lifelong hobby, Coin Collecting for Kids encourages children to search for, save, and learn all about many different U.S. coins. Take a tour through the mint and save pennies from four different decades while learning about how coins are made. Slots on every page let kids collect birth-year coins, millennium coins, and twentieth-century coins. Lastly, a gatefold spread will accommodate all 50 wildly popular statehood quarters. Organized by release year, each slot lists the state's nickname, motto, flower, and bird.
Hit of the Party 2008-01-08
This was a gift for our 6 year old nephew. He loved it! We spent hours filling in the coins that he already owned. It has a full section for state quarters and presidential dollars. It also has a section for oldest coins, annual pennies, and other interesting sections. My nephew had us all emptying our pockets and the whole family got involved. He was completely fascinated by it. It is of excellent quality and beautifully presented. The only drawback was that some of the coin slots were tight and hard for a 6 year old to press a coin into. Overall, we highly recommend this book. It was a big hit at the party and lots of fun.
What a Wonderful Book!!!! 2008-01-01
This coin collecting book is awesome! I bought it for my eight-year-old daughter for Christmas. I thought she would enjoy it because she is so interested in the markings on money and in the statehood quarters. What a hit! It is quite unique, with inviting text and graphics for kids, lots of information, and cut-outs for collecting all kinds of coins. It is not just a book to read; it's an activity. It is large and appears far more expensive than it is, so it was a great gift at a low price. It was the best $10 I spent this Christmas. I plan to buy this book for all my nieces and nephews either for birthdays or for next Christmas!
Awesome book! 2007-11-01
This is a wonderful book! It is full of interesting facts as well as being a great showcase for the collected coins. i bought this for my 11 year old son and he LOVES it. The only downside is it is kind of unwieldy, so he can't take it places with him and I am concerned about it falling apart from use. Great price, though and Amazon was SO FAST!
Great idea. TERRIBLE construction! 
2007-09-30
This book is perfect for this age group. All of the previous reviewers have been right. However, the spiral bound construction, as it is, is ill-conceived. Not sure they expected kids to actually want to LOOK at it more than a couple of times. There's no way it would hold up to months or years of handling. We had to take plumber ties and pull together several ends of the spirals to get it to hold. It's working now, but pretty lame that we had to do this.
