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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 483746, member: 16060&quot;]I know a lot of people bad mouth the state quarter program and now the new programs the mint has launched or about to launch.&nbsp; I do think it does bring more people into the hobby without question.&nbsp; How many of these become collectors of &quot;older coins&quot; is anyone&#039;s guess. But if you look at the Peace Dollar now compared to say five years ago their populariy has certainly grown and somebody is buying them and prices have increased fairly well over those years.&nbsp; I tend to think they are fair judge of people in the market because they are still as one writer said a big beautiful coin that looks expensive, but isn&#039;t.&nbsp; They allow you to own a beautiful set of coins very unique without spending a fortune. I don&#039;t know if it is true or not, but on a recent HSN coin show they said coin collecting was the number one hobby in American now. I have no idea where they got their data from.&nbsp; I&#039;m certainly not knocking it I do it myself,&nbsp; but collecting state quarters out of pocket change is not really a coin collector to me. Coins have a few things going in there favor I think more and more people are realizing&nbsp; Coins are money and let&#039;s face it, people like money. I think more and more people realize they are very artistic and loaded with history.&nbsp; A few things I certainly enjoy also are they don&#039;t take up a lot space, I can be active any time night or day that I want, and can meet others with similar interests such as here. Coin collecting is very popular right now and I think it will continue to be even after the economy turns around.&nbsp; In America we do have a big &quot;herd&quot; mentality to follow whether it be in stocks, real estate, precious metals, or coins. The hobby as a whole is pretty solid right now and will go up and down, but I think it has gotten too popular to ever contract to a large extent.&nbsp; Others that have doing this longer than me would certainly know more about that. Once you get into this it&#039;s not something you want to give up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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