Ancients collectors' ages

Sounds like an obsession. OCD maybe?

 

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Kleptomania...

no, just joking. Purely a need for a cheap pen, then ... Oops... How come I have so many?

 

I am the ripe old age of 19. Just finished my first yeat at Georgia Tech.

 

44 next month. I'd give anything to be 18 and have the chance to make all the same mistakes again!!!

 

I would certainly not. The 20-30 decade has been quite a pain, the 30-40 has been great, the 40-50 even more, with kids growing up and in their "teen" themselves (a pure gift). The 50-60 started quite well too, I expect it to finish the same.

From my experience every decade is much better than the previous one, hence I'm looking forward to being 80 YO ))

Optimistic Q

 

I would love to go back to my 0-10 decade => everything was new and possible

... sure, "spankings" were a bit of a downside (but most were probably deserved)

 

@> Steve
Come live in Australia, Steve. Against the law to 'spank'. Therefore no 'downside'.

I am with you, my friend. 0-10 great, 10 - 20 School - Yuk, 20 -30 Girls and the '60's so can't remember much, 60 - 70 Great, BUT WHERE DID 30 - 60 GO? I missed it.

 

I am not as old as many of you here, but I would give anything to go back to a time before the cell phone and email. I can remember it!

 

Go pop a wheelie Anoob.

 

Any day of the week home-slice.

 

Things were much more peaceful then but remember how hard it was to find rare books and information if you did not live in a major city?

 

Lol, doing your homework was guesswork!

 

I like reading things this way. I can see the distribution curve easier.

I have thoughts on why it looks this way........and I think it might actually be a perfect example of distribution, despite being a small sample size.

There is no even distribution (flat-line), there is no standard distribution (a bell curve of some form) because it is missing its right side (few respondents) There is no straight line equation to fit the data without a lot of variance.

Anyone have ideas on why it may look this way but still be accurate?

You can't just put data out there and not try to make sense of it......right?

 

Despite the small sample size, I have an observation about the graph:

The left side is probably over-representative and the right side under-representative of the true distribution of all ancient coin collectors. Why? This poll was responded to by computer users. The oldest collectors are less likely to use computer social media, and the younger users more likely.

In general, I'd expect the largest group of collectors to be in the 50 and up ages because we have fewer family obligations and more disposable income. Generalizing, but probably true.

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

I agree ... but man, those dudes over 100 years old are helping to bring-up the overall average age!! (good for those two ol' buggers, eh?)



Cheers

 

Never thought I'd look forward to growing older, but yes, that's a definite upside.

 

Based on the stats here people stop collecting after the age of 80 and don't pick it up again until after they turn 100...

 

One of my favourites. I have referred to this in class for years.

 

I know a couple collectors in their 90's and one of my favorite dealers is mid-80's working shows about 40 weekends a years. You are what you do. The question is when you decide you are too old to collect anymore. Being blind would make the hobby quite different. Being able to look at coin photos on a 60" screen might help as you get worse. When I was 50, I could ID an Eastern Septimius denarius from 20 feet. Now it is more like 10. I may as well change over to Aes Grave.