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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RabidRick, post: 2002120, member: 37868&quot;]The price of precious metals has been at an all-time high in the last several years. If silver goes down, the lower-end older varieties are more easily obtained. Kids ask mommy and daddy for things and they take up a huge slice of the marketing demographic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I asked a dealer recently about the ages of collectors he sees and he said it was mostly kids or older folks, less people around my age (20-30&#039;s).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If wealthy people ever take investing in coins seriously, that is a lot more money than an influx of new collectors. It is a collector&#039;s market right now. I&#039;m not sure what happened in the 80&#039;s but it was obviously speculation. People were trying it out. I think the internet could change the mentality in that respect. You aren&#039;t buying coins and selling them at half-price anymore, as long as you know how to use eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>People have been collecting coins for thousands of years. I doubt demand will just suddenly vanish. It&#039;s one of the more popular collectables, right there next to art. If you look at the numbers and account for inflation I don&#039;t think the market on average has much room to go *anywhere* but UP. Then again, I could be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt it. They are way too common and will always be that way. It&#039;s a fad, but it might be a driving factor for interest in the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like music. New genres appear all the time but they will never topple over the classics, like Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rossini, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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