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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 17, April 24, 2022, Article 8

COIN SAVINGS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

On a related note, researcher and author David Lange submitted these notes about the "Young America Serves" book mentioned in the last issue. -Editor

I spotted the "Young America Serves" book in the latest issue. I have several of these, and they're not particularly rare. I was given one quite a few years ago by someone who believed that it qualified for my collection of coin collecting albums. It's a common mistake made by well meaning individuals, and I've found myself with a wide variety of not-quite-there items.

As sometimes happens, however, I became slightly hooked on this area of collecting, and I now have more than a dozen savings books for children that are similar in concept and construction, though often varying in their graphic design. A few of these have found a place guarding my collection of Library of Coins albums, and I'm attaching a photo. All date to the 1940s, though the cover illustrations reveal that one or two clearly had been in production as early as the 1920s. The Young America Serves was a wartime update to the basic edition seen at the far left. Children were encouraged to save their change to buy war stamps that could later be exchanged for war bonds.

  Dave Lange's Coin Savings books

A few years ago you ran photos of a savings book from my collection that still had the original coins hidden under paper strips that, when completed, formed a picture. This feature was included in a very few of these books to dissuade kids from retrieving their pennies, nickels and dimes, as it would damage the complete puzzles. I posed the question to readers of whether I should retrieve the coins myself, now that they were 70+ years old and could include scarce dates/mints. The few responses were in favor of keeping the book intact, with the coins still hidden, and it remains so today.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE DEFEND AMERICA COIN SAVINGS BOOK (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n16a31.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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