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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SorenCoins, post: 4788813, member: 73708&quot;]Funny post. I never would have thought of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the perfect interview-style question where an employer would want to see the path of logic you follow, even if it wasn&#039;t possible to know the actual answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are about 328.2 million people in the USA. I am going to go on a limb here, and say that 3/4ths (75%) of the population heard about the 50 State Quarters Program on the news or were aware of it in someway. I assume that the announcement of the 50 State Quarters Program was probably the biggest coin-related news the public had seen, and will see in a long time, but let&#039;s just say that 75% of the population has heard some coin-related news in the paper or on TV, be it 1943 copper cents being found or new quarter designs. This is probably the biggest factor in pulling in new collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, 75% of the population has heard coin-related news. I will assume that about 30% of the population actually cared about that news (a few percent were probably already collecting, such as if their parents had gotten them interested). Out of that 30% group, I would say that 10% of that 30% would not have found anything interesting, or got frustrated, and gave up. That leaves about 20% of the population of the USA that began collecting after hearing the news. We will count them as collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to plug in the numbers:</p><p><b>Total population of the USA- 328.2 million.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>0.75 * 328.2 million = 246.15 million.</p><p><b>Number of people who&#039;ve heard about coins on the news- 246.15 million.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>0.30 * 328.2 million = 98.46 million.</p><p><b>Number of people who really cared about the coin-related news- 98.6 million.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>0.2 * 328.2 million = 65.64 million.</p><p><b>Number of people who found something or remained interested and became collectors- 65.64 million.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>I would bet that around 75% of the people who became collectors became somewhat serious collectors (more than just a few coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>0.15 * 328.2 million = 49.23 million.</p><p><b>Number of people who grew to become moderately serious collectors- 49.23 million.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>With that I estimate about 40-50 million people collect coins in the United States. This does not surprise me; people are fascinated with money, it&#039;s really interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now this, as you can see (if you&#039;ve actually read this far), is a lot of speculation, but it does follow some logic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Boy that really took me a long time lol. I was very invested in it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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