Level: 3
Category: Arts, Crafts, & Hobbies
Year: 1998

Currency (Coins) Advanced

  1. Complete the Currency honour.
  2. Select a coin or note from your collection and present an oral or written report on the historical or other significance of the person(s), place(s), item(s) or symbol(s) found on both sides.
  3. Attend a meeting of a local coin club and report on your experience. Possible items to consider:
    1. Level of expertise of members as demonstrated by presentations and dialogues
    2. Average general age of attendees
    3. Ideas which might help the club extend its collector interest to a wider audience
    4. How newcomer friendly the organisation; is
    5. Suggestions on how these people might be reached with the gospel through a manner which they would find attractive
  4. Select one of the three categories of your collection as required under the Currency honour requirements #7 and #8, and increase your collection to include twice the total number of specimens.
  5. Add to your collection at least one of the unusual (odd and curious) forms learned about in requirement #1 of the Currency honour requirements and have in your Currency honour files at least a paragraph summarizing how, when, and where this item was used as currency.