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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MissSasha, post: 701073, member: 20786&quot;]<b>I guess I&#039;m an anomaly here then.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I&#039;m an anomaly here then.</p><p><br /></p><p>21 (just as of this month), female and not a total hag.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always had interest in dirty old metal discs and sitting quietly in the basement looking at them, occasionally handing one across the tale to a guy who&#039;s also going through the same batch to get an opinion on grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re around, but we don&#039;t feel very welcomed. Coin shops give us the brush-off, dealers don&#039;t want to even acknowledge us and forums are filled with misogynistic generalizations. It&#039;s pretty much like going to a comic-book conventions, just less drool.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I&#039;m probably going to get blacklisted for this, but jees guys, some of the stuff said here makes me wonder there&#039;s ANY women involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saying certain things to a woman is pretty much guaranteed she won&#039;t wish to be anywhere near you. Like, <i>&quot;all women care about are babies and going out&quot;</i>. While both are NICE, how do they preclude us from having hobbies? It&#039;s like a woman saying something equally derogatory about a ma&#039;s single-minded focus of the football season.</p><p><br /></p><p>And &quot;<i>women don&#039;t have a collecting gene</i>&quot;. So absurdly false, because the majority of librarians and museum curators, aka people that that preserve and catalog COLLECTIONS, are women. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t even fathom to decipher the line of argument about being socially well-adjusted, nerd and collecting coins. There&#039;s plenty of female nerds. They tend to go to college and major in &quot;boring sciency things&quot;. Doubtful you&#039;ll find Suzy Emptybrains-Cheerleader interested in coins while on the 8th year of her degree in beer bongs, but there&#039;s some damn sexy young ladies working as lab techs that I see every day! Most of whom would qualify as &quot;nerds&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m guessing it&#039;s not the hobby, it&#039;s some of those that partake in it that drive women away. </p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to proceed with my crucifixion!</p><p><br /></p><p>Onto the main point, it all depends on childhood exposure to coins. I was given a handful very young and always was fascinated by them. As soon as my life was in order, I jumped back in. Most people these days don&#039;t get to handle &quot;different&quot; coins as kids, thus no seed is planted from which interest will sprout. All the cool stuff US Mint is doing these past few years likely will increase the # of future numismatist. Hopefully female ones as well, so we have someone to share make-up tips AND coin album advice with <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and gold coins? Love them, but won&#039;t be able to afford them for a few years. And that&#039;s a wishful estimation. I have one teeny holed one, and it will have to do for a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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