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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2915705, member: 15062&quot;]This has been discussed before but this may be a different way of looking at the subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philately (stamp collecting) has nosedived over the past 20-30 years mainly, in my opinion, for two reasons, 1) due to the fact that few people use stamps any more, decreasing their exposure to the product, and 2) the excessive issuance of multiple stamp types (scores each year) that few could fully keep up with.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics may be going the same direction for the same reasons, 1) decreasing numbers of people use cash in place of credit/debit cards, rarely coming into contact with actual hard cash and 2) no one who is a collector can possible collect the total number of very expensive products put out by the mint today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stamp collectors have been people whose lives paralleled the common use of stamps.&nbsp; This number is decreasing every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collectors typically have been the same type - people in whose lives cash was in common use.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe in the future there will be collectors of various credit and debit cards (fidemists?).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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