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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 697422, member: 16510&quot;]Has anyone done a poll on here as far as gender and age goes???</p><p>How many males, how many females, what ages?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I too, as a show owner am very concered about the hobby being mostly men from age 45 to almost dead. (I am in that catagory)!</p><p>Truthfully we do see some young folks and females, even some young family&#039;s but not a lot.&nbsp; I would estamate our show is attended by men 45 and older at the 70% to 80% range.</p><p>Maybe this has been talked about before on here and it&#039;s not at all an uncommon concern but I&#039;d like to know what CoinTalk members think.</p><p>I&#039;d also be interested in anything that would pull more young persons and ladies to coins - we need that infusion badly.</p><p>We as coin collectors owe a certain amount of gratitude to assuring the hobby will continue for others.</p><p>How can we do that???</p><p>The things I do now are I offer free coins to all children, also free magazines, old coin boards, albums etc.&nbsp; I advertise that same thing and get the shows schedual in front of main stream media.&nbsp; I have given talks to schools and have sent free stuff out to people.&nbsp; I always feel like there is so much more &quot;I could do&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For instance if there was a way on CoinTalk to help the teenages with free coins sent to them if we could.</p><p>I think I mentioned this to Peter last winter but my computer went down soon after for the 1st of 5 times this year and it got shelved.</p><p>We need to develope a venue through this site to activly help others and there is no good reason why we should not.</p><p>Any thoughts???????[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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