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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1338151, member: 68&quot;]I couldn&#039;t disagree more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh sure, this is the golden age of collecting that young people today&nbsp; will look back upon fondly and wistfully and saying things like &quot;if I had only known&quot;. But your perception of the market is wrong and your prediction for the future is likely to be very far off the mark.&nbsp; Coin collecting is in no danger of going the way of the buggy whip but demographics and the changing collector base are about to wholly upset the status quo permanently.&nbsp; This won&#039;t be like 1995 when many people thought coin collecting was a dying hobby because the number of participants is going to continue to increase but the diversity is going to explode.&nbsp; It will no longer just be middle class American white men most all of whomare baby boomers.&nbsp; Coin collecting will be far broader base and include more countries, more women, more children, and more economic classes.&nbsp; The tastes of these collectors is impossible to predict but it&#039;s very very safe to think it will be more countries, more modern, and much more diverse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Classic American coins aren&#039;t going to go away or reenter circulation but the number of collectors will plummet as the wealth of the remaining collectors soar.&nbsp; This will certainly put extreme pressure on the prices of widely available coins.&nbsp; They will likely dip to below their 1995 lows.&nbsp; This won&#039;t impact most real collectors very greatly unless they are unlucky but it will wipe out most of the investment money in old coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s the same old cycle; things go up and down and very few things go up and down more than collectibles.&nbsp; This time it will seem that a lot of these coins will never&nbsp; come back but they most probably will.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Moderns will be where the demand has the most impact on supply no matter what people in the future choose to collect.&nbsp; This is because the supply of most moderns is tiny as well as is the demand (and price).&nbsp; Any change in demand will create large pressures on price.&nbsp; Any change in price will have almost no effect on demand.&nbsp; This is a prescription for explosive growth.&nbsp; This is being seen in other countries first because there is so little demand for moderns in the US.&nbsp; It&#039;s going to be a wild ride for at least the next couple decades.&nbsp; The coin collecting hobby will look very very different then than it does now.&nbsp; I envy young folks who get to ride this thing but they&#039;ll think I had even more fun than they did.&nbsp; It&#039;s been a hoot but I&#039;d trade them if I could.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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