Something Fun to do with your kids and a lesson to be learned as well!

Hello, my name is Kimberly McCoin, I work for Sahara Coins & Extraordinary Collectibles here in Las Vegas. I am the faceless name that sits to the side of the guys as they are doing their daily buying and selling and listens to the many stories from the customers who walk into our store.
Part of my job is to read the newspaper everyday to see what is happening in our glorious city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Last week I received a small newspaper publication in my mailbox and in one section it had “fun things to do with your kids.” It included information about places to roller skate, ice skate to go bowling and even places with arcades. With a 12 year old son of my own and being fairly new to Las Vegas, I am often looking for something different to do with him. Something that would be educational and help grow his young mind, not just vegetate it, like the video games he loves so much.
The very next day I was struck with an idea, when one of our very good customers came in for the umpteenth time with his 9 year old son, for their father and son afternoon of checking out all the cool rare coins and other collectibles inside of Sahara Coins & Extraordinary Collectibles and adding to his sons already ever growing collection of rare coins. I believe our store should be on the list of fun things to do with your kids.
You see we are not set up like the normal coin store. Our store is more like a museum. We have walls of collectibles and cases full of rare coins. In one corner of the store you can find a Carson City Mint Double Bell Safe, which reminds me of something you would see in the movie Tombstone. Parked in front of it is an extreme custom bike built from an Arlen Ness called “Piracy” with it’s custom pirate themed paint scheme. You never know what you will see when you walk into the store.
Mark Scott, managing partner of Sahara Coins has spoken to a room full of elementary students and will be the first one to say that children love to collect things and rare coins is not only a great hobby, but can lead to a great business also.
Mark became a collector and a dealer at the age of 15, when he traded a baseball card to a friend for a coin the other kids grandfather had given him. When the friend moved away Mark took the coin into a coin store where they told him it was worth $800, the baseball card had been worth $5.
If you would like to hear the rest of Marks story, which leads up to owning the largest rare coin store in the state of Nevada you must come into Sahara Coins & Extraordinary Collectibles and ask Mark yourself. Better yet bring in your kids and let them ask Mark.