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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2928879, member: 76863&quot;]Really the only true consistent glut are the generic common date common grade things.&nbsp; Plenty of the nicer material is getting harder to find.&nbsp; Being able to search countless inventories from your home has brought a lot of transparency to the supply side over the last 10 decade or so&nbsp; which put downward pressure on common items.&nbsp; Set building also turned more to type/buy whatever I like collecting.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t go as far to say that set building is dying, but it certainly isn&#039;t the popular kid in the collecting styles at the moment.&nbsp; World coins are also taking off with a much greater popularity and the percentage of collectors who at least dabble in world collecting has certainly been increasing and many have gone past just dabbling.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The generic stuff certainly has been a causality of money getting pulled in more directions with the more varied interests most people have.&nbsp; Also the fact that they&#039;re always available with how many of them are made available to the internet market it&#039;s easy to see how it has become a price race to the bottom with some of that stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp; Auctions every week haven&#039;t helped in that area either especially if their buying base isn&#039;t large enough to absorb everything it just ends up creating a hard to ignore price history at a lower level.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It really hasn&#039;t been any different than any other market.&nbsp; Some things are hot, some things are cold, other&#039;s are on fire or ice cold ect.&nbsp; What those things are has shifted from time period to time period though a few series just can&#039;t seem to heat up.&nbsp; Records have been set every year though in various areas which does make it hard for someone with a similar collection to not at least give strong consideration into selling and starting a new/different collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing coin shows are representative of is coin shows.&nbsp; There are plenty of types of collectors you generally won&#039;t see at coin shows it doesn&#039;t mean they don&#039;t exist.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that part will ever change just from the nature of how shows are set up and the fact that there are good arguments for and against changes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would say though that it probably doesn&#039;t help things any that there is basically a major show every 2-4 weeks now.&nbsp; If you miss one you know another is right around the corner.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Greg hit the nail on the head, collecting is just changing and will continue to do so.&nbsp; No generation has done it the exact same or shared the exact same interests as the generation before it.&nbsp; There may not be a one to one replacement for each collector in every area, but there is net gain to collecting as a whole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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