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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hoky77, post: 5418699, member: 97374&quot;]This is how stamp collecting was ruined. The postal system, seeing how much they benefited from all the uncanceled stamps taken out of circulation by collectors, started increasing new releases in such large numbers that most collectors, especially the youngsters that are the lifeblood of any hobby , couldn&#039;t afford to buy all the corner blocks. Without new young collectors to carry the torch a vibrant hobby died out and is now only a shadow of what it once was. The mint seems to be following the same greedy path as the postal system. Would anyone care to guess on the amount of statehood quarters that have been shelved and taken out of circulation?&nbsp; I saw a estimate once that there are about ten million coin collectors in the US. If only half of these put together a P&amp;D set of the state quarters that would add up to $130,000,000. How many of us put away multiple bank rolls?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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