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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 73933, member: 66&quot;]Of couse the next generation can continue the hobby.&nbsp; As long as there are a couple of collectors the hobby will endure.&nbsp; What most of you are worried about is &quot;will there be enough new collectors that I will be able to sell my coins at a profit.&quot;&nbsp; That&#039;s a totally different animal.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m not too worried about the hobby.&nbsp; Most people aren&#039;t able to take the long historical perspective view of the hobby&nbsp; They go to a show, see a bunch of &quot;old white guys&quot; and very few young people.&nbsp; This makes them worry that the collectors will all die out.&nbsp; Well I have been going to coin shows on a regular basis every year for 35 years.&nbsp; There have NEVER been very many young people at coin shows.&nbsp; There have NEVER been very many young people coming to coin club meetings.&nbsp; But you know what.&nbsp; The average age of the people at a coin show today, and the average age 35 years ago is almost exactly the same.&nbsp; For the most part this is not a young person hobby.&nbsp; Yes most of us get exposed when we are very young, but most of us do not participate in the hobby between the ages of 16 and 45.&nbsp; We have other things that we consider more important. Cars, girls, college, girls, getting married, a career, raising a family&nbsp; did I mention girls?&nbsp; Then when the kids are getting a little older, often in their early teens, we start coming back to out old coin collecting hobby.&nbsp; If we have more money we might come back a little earlier, or if we are paying to put our kids through college, a little later.&nbsp; But a significant portion does come back.&nbsp; And then we tend to stick around for the next thirty to forty years and become the next generation of &quot;old white guys&quot; that worries the younger collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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