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<p>[QUOTE="Volante, post: 1806282, member: 57279"]It's a well-known fact that most coin collectors and coin dealers are older men. Go to any coin show, and odds are most of the people there are going to be in their autumn years. Young numismatists are a rare sighting. I've been in the hobby for roughly a decade, so I don't have a great amount of perspective here—has it always been this way or has the average age of collectors increased? </p><p><br /></p><p>And if numismatics has become an older man's hobby, do you think the market is going to experience a fall-off as older collectors age out? Or has the rise of internet sales and eBay (at the expense of B&M shops) revitalized the hobby?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Volante, post: 1806282, member: 57279"]It's a well-known fact that most coin collectors and coin dealers are older men. Go to any coin show, and odds are most of the people there are going to be in their autumn years. Young numismatists are a rare sighting. I've been in the hobby for roughly a decade, so I don't have a great amount of perspective here—has it always been this way or has the average age of collectors increased? And if numismatics has become an older man's hobby, do you think the market is going to experience a fall-off as older collectors age out? Or has the rise of internet sales and eBay (at the expense of B&M shops) revitalized the hobby?[/QUOTE]
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