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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1481921, member: 15929&quot;]Older folks are more likely to have disposable income today and a far greater appreciation for value. Most, collect or purchase specifically as an inheritance for their children who, when inherited, may or may not continue with collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin or money collecting has been occuring for literally hundreds of years and is not about to die off anytimg soon since at the very &quot;minimum&quot; what is colected ALWAYS has face value. This cannot be said for Beanie Babies.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re fooling yourself. While &quot;some&quot; silver coins could satill be had in pocket change in the late 50&#039;s/early 60&#039;s, those very coins can still be found at silver melt. If you;re thinking rare die varieties, think again, just like today, when something was found it was published in national publications and folks actively searched for them or simply purchased them. In other words, nothing has <i><b>really</b></i> changed between then and now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I think that the majority of collectors today get into the hobby for the same reason that folks build model airplanes, model railroads or model cars or even collect classic cars. They do it simply because they can.</p><p>Today&#039;s youth is more than welcome and more then able to collect coins from pocket change just like they did 40 or 100 years ago since finding nice high grade examples of coins will only fuel &quot;future&quot; collections. Those future collectors will look back and wonder why in the heck folks didn&#039;t save more of the current circulating coinage and why in the heck are the prices so darned high?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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