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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1574509, member: 26302"]Personally, to me there is a difference between money and "seriousness". But, in this context, I would say actively buying coins in the marketplace would have to be considered.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be fair, those who collect state quarters and other change from circulation are collectors, but to me a "serious" collector is one who buys coins on a continuous basis. I would look at ANA membership or membership in local coin clubs as a base, and multiply from there. I believe there are around 50,000 ANA members, (someone please correct me if I am wrong). If you assume there are 15 active collectors for every member of the ANA, (just a wild assumption), that is only 750,000 "serious" collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there are a lot of people in the US that inherited some morgan dollars, or grandpas penny sets, but if they aren't actively collecting and learning themselves, I would not consider them a "serious" collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is more depressing to me is I would say there are only around 8,000 serious collectors of ancient coins in the US, and I am not too sure if that number is too high. The Celator, (ancient coin magazine), has about a 2000 circulation, and many of those are overseas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1574509, member: 26302"]Personally, to me there is a difference between money and "seriousness". But, in this context, I would say actively buying coins in the marketplace would have to be considered. To be fair, those who collect state quarters and other change from circulation are collectors, but to me a "serious" collector is one who buys coins on a continuous basis. I would look at ANA membership or membership in local coin clubs as a base, and multiply from there. I believe there are around 50,000 ANA members, (someone please correct me if I am wrong). If you assume there are 15 active collectors for every member of the ANA, (just a wild assumption), that is only 750,000 "serious" collectors. Yes, there are a lot of people in the US that inherited some morgan dollars, or grandpas penny sets, but if they aren't actively collecting and learning themselves, I would not consider them a "serious" collector. What is more depressing to me is I would say there are only around 8,000 serious collectors of ancient coins in the US, and I am not too sure if that number is too high. The Celator, (ancient coin magazine), has about a 2000 circulation, and many of those are overseas.[/QUOTE]
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