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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 839193, member: 15929"]You folks ever stop to consider that coin collecting is a leisurely hobby that can get quite expensive and therefore has a tendency to attract an "older" audience? Is coin collecting dying?  No. Do coin collectors die? Yes. People naturally "collect" things and what better things to collect than things which you can spend or get for free at any bank or grocery store? The very fact that coins which are hundreds of years old and yet are in near perfect condition proves that coin collecting has been around and active for over 200 years and I expect it will be around and active in another 200 years. To think otherwise simply lacks depth. Will the current popularity for buying and selling coins die? Possibly. If enough people get ripped off or lose their shirts because they "invested" in coins, sure. However, this will NOT affect coin "collectors" and at some point in time, interest will get renewed because in the future it'll get reported that "so an so just sold his collection of high grade clad Washington Quarters for over a million dollars!"[/QUOTE]