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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 119670, member: 1674&quot;]So sell your coins already!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have little patience for the whining that the seasoned citizens around here reserve for the pending doom of the hobby when they all die.&nbsp; Life WILL go on without you!&nbsp; If you want to maximize the sale price of your unwanted (by your heirs) collection then arrange to sell it before you die or set up a way for it to be sold after you die so that you won&#039;t burden them with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a seperate point the hobby isn&#039;t dying!!&nbsp; I&#039;m 28 and as such I&#039;m still on the young end of collectors, but I am unusual becasue most people my age don&#039;t have the disposable income to expend on rare coins.&nbsp; The cost of rare coins precludes the lower classes from collecting the kinds of coins that would require attending coin shows to find.&nbsp; As people age and their disposable income increases they become interested in new hobbies and coin collecting is one of them.&nbsp; This is one of the main reasons that the hobby is populated with older people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe this is harsh, but from a numismatic perspective I&#039;m looking forward to the baby-boomers dying.&nbsp; Right now the boomers are at a point in their lives where they are entering numismatics and I believe that is one of the reasons that prices have been on the rise so steadily the last few years.&nbsp; There are more of them buying than there are collections being broken up right now.&nbsp; Once the boomers pass on then the next generation will see a decrease in prices as demand falters.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sky is NOT falling, even if your kids don&#039;t care about your coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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