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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3198097, member: 66"]If you had asked me that question when I was in High School I would have given the same answer. And that was 40 years ago And those other kids were all Baby boomers, the same people that now make up the majority of collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting the vast majority of coin collectors were from "the Greatest Generation". Most of them are dead now. But coin collecting is still rolling on.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the Boomers die off coin collecting die? No. Will the collector base get smaller? Possibly. And that might be a good thing. Fewer collectors may make for greater availability and moderate prices and allow more collectors to own coins that today are priced out of reach. many collectors today want to see continually rising prices so that they can make money on their coins, but constantly rising prices also tends to discourage new collectors because they believe they can't possibly get the coins they want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3198097, member: 66"]If you had asked me that question when I was in High School I would have given the same answer. And that was 40 years ago And those other kids were all Baby boomers, the same people that now make up the majority of collectors. When I started collecting the vast majority of coin collectors were from "the Greatest Generation". Most of them are dead now. But coin collecting is still rolling on. When the Boomers die off coin collecting die? No. Will the collector base get smaller? Possibly. And that might be a good thing. Fewer collectors may make for greater availability and moderate prices and allow more collectors to own coins that today are priced out of reach. many collectors today want to see continually rising prices so that they can make money on their coins, but constantly rising prices also tends to discourage new collectors because they believe they can't possibly get the coins they want.[/QUOTE]
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