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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 3086785, member: 80121&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting a long time and one area I concentrate on is my albums. Some are complete, but some are an ongoing quest. I just ordered the Uncirculated Set from the mint. That will add to my Lincoln Cents, Jefferson Nickel, Roosevelt Dime, Kennedy Half, and Parks albums. To get the proofs, I&#039;ll wait for people to put both the clad and silver primary coins, in the lens, on eBay. I&#039;ll buy from Apmex, MCM, etc. for the 5 oz. Park series and any other new coins I&#039;m collecting. I&#039;m on good terms with the owners of the 5 coin shops in town and will buy if they have a coin I need or if one catches my eye. Coin shows can be a good source if you go to the same shows and get to know which dealers charge a reasonsble price. With the huge influx of counterfeit coins, I will only buy graded coins on eBay and even those are being counterfeited, so I tend to buy from people I have dealt with in the past.</p><p>Having said all that I think the thing that has the greatest effect on the coin collecting hobby is the graying of coin collectors. The number of collectors is declining, we old folks are not be replaced by new collectors. The coin club I belong to has and continues to try and bring young people into the hobby. We make sure we always have low priced coins at our club auctions, we gear events at our twice a year coin shops especially to young collectors, but we have the same problems other clubs have. There are just to many other things out there to interest young people. The coin TV Shows don&#039;t help, there seems to be a trend toward selling higher and higher priced coins and coin sets which young collectors can&#039;t afford. The chance to fill an album from circulation, unless you start from 1965 on, is just about impossible. I have a substantial collection that my grandson showed a great interest in, then puberty kicked in. At the last club meeting 60 members attended and 50 of them had gray hair. So I feel the number one thing that effects coin prices is the declining number of people available who will buy them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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