Age of collectors

I'm glad to see that there's more than one of us older than that "whipper-snapper" Doug LOL, who always seems to have my correct answers.

Oh Well. we're never too old to learn.

After 65+ years of collecting one would think that we shouldn't need this venue to learn what you may have forgotten. I occasionally just don't remember.

It was nice when we collected coins just because of their beauty without any thought of furure sales price.

I just don't understand waiting in a line to acquire a coin that may already be sold. However, I'm glad that Fiat was generally never of interest. Merely the hunt for the "elusive" has allowed a collection of "future" treasures.

73 years of youth has allowed great knowledge/experiences. I hope that all of positive demeanor enjoy the same life of love, while the curmudgeons can do the battle.

JMHO

 

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lol

 

You forgot the other major sources the big coin auctions ha stacks legend Goldberg etc. myself I got a lot of coins and some good ones and not a single one came from feebay!

 

No, I just considered them dealers also.

 

I'm the big 3-1. But having 3 boys under 5 makes me feel much, much older... Haha!!

 

You thought I was older before you met me too

 

imrich;

I'm glad to see you participated in the survey. We are really starting to amass the votes. We now lead the next older group by a margin of 3 to 1!

 

The large majority of new collectors under 20 or so, will give up the hobby for a decade or more. The survival of the hobby depends on what happens ( if anything) to bring them back. If physical cash starts disappearing , then it may not. Email and electronic messaging has bombed stamp collecting, on line/computer games has stomped 'card' collecting, I don't know what, but something killed beanie babies, etc.

 

Cosplay.... Cosplay killed beanie babies...

 

Ty killed the beanie baby fad when he abruptly stopped making them.

With most of the younger people collecting mostly 20th/21st century coins in about tens years or so I wonder what will become of the 19th century coin market. Will there be enough demand to support the values of the coins of that period other than Morgan dollars which will always be popular.

A poll which would yield interesting results would be by age group what types of coins members of this forum collect. Modern, post 1916, versus classic, pre 1916.

 

i started out with 1916-date, then moved on to older stuff when i could afford it.

 

I don't even go that late my cutoff is the beginning of barber coins and small cents I'll go a bit later on gold tho as I love st gaudens $20

 

Say What!!!!! Am I an old guy or what??? So I've been collecting from around 1955. Maybe a year or so earlier. Can't remember, and I don't care.

 

Beanie Babies = thread jumping, correct?..............

 

Same age as the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, 53.

 

36 here.

Started at about 12, went hard till college, took about a ten year hiatus then got back into it when PMs were flying high in 2010-2011. I sold a bunch of common silver during the recent PM peak to fold the profits back into the collection with the keys and semi-keys I always wished for when a YN.

 

37 and new-ish to collecting.

 

I turned 14 years old last month. You can call me a Young Numismatist but I am already a dealer and I currently work in a coin shop not to far from my house. I have been collecting for 3 years since I found a 1944 wheat cent and I said to myself "Wow that's old". My dream soon became to own a indian head cent. Six months later once I opened my "piggy bank" I found a 1903 indian head cent. Right once I found it I knew what I wanted next, a 1793 Wreath Large Cent. Good luck to me getting one lol.