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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3359942, member: 57463"]Youth and adults are two different markets and the dealers of today will be gone by the time today's collecting youths return as collecting adults. Typically, kids give up coins (or whatever else) when they become teenagers and take up dating as a hobby. They get married, etc., etc., and return later. We see the same thing in aviation with people returning to learn to fly after the kids are grown and gone. The youth market is a long-term strategy of the 128-year old organization, not the 45 or 75-year old dealer. Kids are a separate market. They buy different things than adults. Kennedy Halves seem ancient to them. It is a fact, as you note that Americans collect American coins first with Canadian, UK, German,etc., as decreasing seconds, thirds, and belows.  Medieval, ancients, tokens, US federal paper, other American paper money ("obsoletes"), and on and on, each becomes a niche apart from and of smaller participation than classic 19th and 20th century US Federal coins. But The Numismatist does indeed address all of those other niches, on a rotating basis, usually four times a year each. In addition, any good feature article will get placement, often a cover story. The problem there, though, is not the lack of collectors, but the lack of writers. Believe me. I write. But also have edited very often, usually as the lone staff technical writer for an IT devops team. They usually write like Mr. Smith gone to Washington fillibustering the House, but sometimes like Tarzan. Sometimes like Tarzan filibustering... I have attended conferences for writers and if you think of Vanity Fair or Forbes that is the top of the pyramid, like those $30,000 coins you don't buy. Most of the magazines on the rack at Barnes and Noble pay about what The Numismatist does. You do a lot of writing here. Why not do it for pay?  Then you can have your own interests appear in The Numismatist.[/QUOTE]

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