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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 759845, member: 4552"]As usual something written by someone that is not the average or one of the greater coin collectors. By that I mean in the USA there is over 300,000,000 people. Probably a good 10% have or are still collecting coins to some degree or other. Many, many, many are kids that have really don't care about having that perfect, high graded, expensive coin. This coin collecting stuff is a hobby and anyone that uses it for investing is part of the minority. Many of us really old people have stopped thinking about how valuable a coin will be in 20 years since we probably won't be there to see it so what difference does that make. Back to those possibly 3,000,000 coin collectors. Imagine if all of them want a MS-66 1909S VDB Lincoln Cent. Not to likely since I've heard they stopped making them some time ago. </p><p>To buy or not to buy in any condition for what ever reason we do is because this is a hobby and it's fun to just have a complete anything before the end. </p><p>At my age I sure could care less about the future value of any of my coins. I don't even care about the present value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 759845, member: 4552"]As usual something written by someone that is not the average or one of the greater coin collectors. By that I mean in the USA there is over 300,000,000 people. Probably a good 10% have or are still collecting coins to some degree or other. Many, many, many are kids that have really don't care about having that perfect, high graded, expensive coin. This coin collecting stuff is a hobby and anyone that uses it for investing is part of the minority. Many of us really old people have stopped thinking about how valuable a coin will be in 20 years since we probably won't be there to see it so what difference does that make. Back to those possibly 3,000,000 coin collectors. Imagine if all of them want a MS-66 1909S VDB Lincoln Cent. Not to likely since I've heard they stopped making them some time ago. To buy or not to buy in any condition for what ever reason we do is because this is a hobby and it's fun to just have a complete anything before the end. At my age I sure could care less about the future value of any of my coins. I don't even care about the present value.[/QUOTE]
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