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Message:: [QUOTE="NorthKorea, post: 1725416, member: 29643"]Tim, why do you start these threads and not respond to them? That is the essence of being a troll. I assume you're not here to troll, since you consider this forum to be family, so why do it? Anyway, to answer your unasked questions: 1) Nearly all older coin collectors you talk to started collecting at a younger age. Logically, your statement is fallacious. 100% (not nearly all, but all) coin collectors (older or younger than you) started collecting at a younger age. This is by definition. After all, if you're currently a collector, you MUST have started collecting at a time before the present, which means you started collecting at a younger age. Semantics aside, it should be obvious that collectors "of a certain age" would have started collecting in their youth. Why? Those who started "collecting" at an advanced age consider themselves "investors," as opposed to "collectors." So, the vast majority of those who view collecting as a hobby (and understand that coin collecting never really was a way to make a quick, or even slow, buck) would be "lifers" who stuck it out when their friends gave up on it. 2) A kid in the 60s could get old coins cheap. Umm, no. In 1963 a gallon of milk was ~50-cents, and a gallon of gas cost ~30-cents. Today, a gallon of gas costs $4.25 and a gallon of milk costs $7.85 here in Hawaii. A 50-cent silver piece is "worth" $7.90 (coinflation.com) and three 10-cent silver pieces are worth $4.74 (coinflation.com). Basically, the same price as they were back then. So, essentially, you'd be telling a kid back then that they could buy four comic books and one or two chocolates... or hold onto that for 50 years and buy a gallon of milk.[/QUOTE]

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