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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DanF1739, post: 697447, member: 20670&quot;]I&#039;ve heard this issue discussed since I was a 14 year old kid starting to collect. It&#039;s not new. It is real. That doesn&#039;t mean it should be ignored or that it can be eliminated.&nbsp; I think one should get kids involved, not just in checking dates on pocket change but by helping them to understand the link between history and coins or paper money.&nbsp; Offer to give a presentation at a school or after-school club or to a Girl Scout troop.&nbsp; At some elementary school event (international night, world culture explorations, the name varies but lots of schools will have some such event) give away cheap world coins with the instructions that the kid should try to figure out where it&#039;s from. Have a poster-sized map there. Getting free money is nice for a minute but they may get hooked for longer...</p><p><br /></p><p>Why are there fewer women involved?&nbsp; Collecting by date seems to much less interesting to most female collectors I&#039;ve known. Not to generalize too much since individual collectors vary regardless of gender, but I&#039;ve known more women who collect for history or beauty or stories than pure rarity or &#039;completing a set&quot;, etc.&nbsp; It may be coins of 100 countries, images of female rulers, art medals, or some such theme, but if my observation is somewhat generally true, then getting women involved would require different events or PR than a campaign to attract more male collectors.&nbsp; PLus, many men are coming back to collecting after having done it as a kid. Most women I know who collect seem to have started as adults.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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