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Stuff Every Coin Collecting Scout Should Know

Practice facts for the Coin Collecting merit badge. Not an official Scouting America credential.

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54 practice questions so far. Each one is a 3-choice card that takes about 30 seconds, and the course grows as new cards pass our source checks.

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  1. What is the front side of a coin usually called?
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    Obverse. The obverse is the front side of a coin, often showing a portrait or main design.

  2. What do we call the back side of a coin?
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    Reverse. The reverse is the back side of a coin, opposite the obverse.

  3. What is the name for the ridges on the edge of many coins?
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    Reeding. Reeding is the grooved or ridged edge found on many coins.

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  1. What is the front side of a coin usually called?
  2. What do we call the back side of a coin?
  3. What is the name for the ridges on the edge of many coins?
  4. A coin made of layers of different metals is described as what?
  5. What is a type set?
  6. What does a date set collect?
  7. Where are active U.S. Mint facilities located?
  8. What does the U.S. Mint do?
  9. Where is United States paper currency printed?
  10. Whose portrait is on the $1 note?
  11. Whose portrait appears on the $5 note?
  12. Whose portrait is on the $10 note?
  13. Whose portrait is on the $20 note?
  14. Whose portrait is on the $50 note?
  15. Whose portrait is on the $100 note?
  16. Whose portrait is on the $2 note?
  17. What do coin collectors call the study of currency as a whole?
  18. What is a coin's grade based on?
  19. What can damage a coin's value?
  20. What do third-party grading services do for coins?
  21. Why did third-party grading emerge in the 1980s?
  22. What is a coin hoarder mainly collecting for?
  23. What is a common reason hobbyists collect coins?
  24. What is a completist collector trying to do?
  25. What can a coin club offer members?
  26. What does a coin show let collectors do?
  27. What might you tour to learn about coin making?
  28. What are tokens and medals collected as?
  29. What should you identify about each world coin you collect?
  30. What special designs appeared on 1975-1976 quarters, half dollars, and dollars?
  31. What is one way to store a coin collection?
  32. Why compare storage methods for coins?
  33. What should you find on a coin besides its design features?
  34. What is the purpose of the 50-State Quarter program?
  35. What did the America the Beautiful program honor?
  36. What did the American Women Quarters program honor?
  37. Which dollar coin design group includes Susan B. Anthony?
  38. Which dollar coin design features Sacagawea?
  39. What do U.S. Presidential dollar coins show?
  40. What makes ancient coins valuable to collectors today?
  41. What does a coin's value depend on besides grade?
  42. What is a coin slab?
  43. Why might a collector study before buying coins as an investment?
  44. What can a collection cost you before you sell it?
  45. What is one of the oldest hobbies mentioned in the sources?
  46. Besides trading and storing wealth, how did early people value coins?
  47. What does a speculator hope to do with coins?
  48. What is an inheritor collector?
  49. What do some collectors focus on as a theme?
  50. What does the American Numismatic Association numbering system range from?
  51. What can make grading controversial? 🔒
  52. What did the first international coin convention in 1962 show? 🔒
  53. What is coin collecting sometimes called? 🔒
  54. What did the 2022 Purple Heart Commemorative Coin Program show? 🔒