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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 699096, member: 15445&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">51, male, married for 27 years, have 1-son &amp; have been collecting for 43 years.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I have found that most women do not have the collector gene required to be a coin collector.&nbsp; There are a few wonderful exceptions but not enough for the plethora of males in our hobby.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I sometimes have this conversation with the occasional parent.&nbsp; I ask if they have a daughter.&nbsp; If the answer is yes, then I tell them that they should have her take a class in coin collecting.&nbsp; The next time you are at a large coin show, look out over the bourse floor.&nbsp; At a large show, you might see ½ billion dollars and maybe 500 people.&nbsp; On a good day, 15% of those people are women.&nbsp; If you daughter is going to fall in love with someone, then it might as well be a rich guy on that floor with all the millions of dollars.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">My friend in Hong Kong has a son &amp; a daughter.&nbsp; He tells me that it is more important for a girl to go to college than it is for a boy.&nbsp; He says that if a girl works in a restaurant, then she will fall in love with a waiter or a cook.&nbsp; If she goes to college then the probability exists that she will fall in love with a college boy.&nbsp; (Of course, the same thing can be stated for the son but it is a man’s world out there).</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Very best regards,</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">collect89</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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