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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevereecy, post: 838395, member: 19884&quot;]I had a morbid thought.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been thinking more and more about the return on investment I&#039;ve gotten with my collection. I&#039;m pleased with the return, though the return is secondary....I like collecting aspect more.&nbsp; I&#039;m consider plowing more money into it as an investment.&nbsp; But investing implies that there must be a future for the hobby and someone to sell coins to at the end of the road.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That all being said, I&#039;ve been trying to figure out whether coin collecting is a growing hobby or a dying one. I used to be able to go to my local grocery store and find coin magazines, but that is no longer the case. When I do go to the local coin shops, I tend to be the youngest person there and I&#039;m in my early 40&#039;s.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think the State Quarters helped us quite a bit and so did changing the design on the cent. But is the age of the average collector still going up? If I buy some cool coins, what good is that going to do me when I want to sell them if most of the people that might have bought them are now collecting coins in heaven?&nbsp; Am I going to be left &quot;holding the bag&quot;?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any thoughts on this?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Steve (who is full of questions today)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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