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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 1890105, member: 68"]Yes.  I agree, for the main part.  My understanding is that a lot of younger collectors are also collecting modern world coins all the way back to include the 20th century.  Some of the increases in prices here are just staggering though I believe most of the demand is coming from the country of issue.  This is unusal for so many young collectors to branch out into foreign and might be the result of the lack of encouragement they get from we old-timers.  But, there's no question that there will be more of this branching out into other areas as time goes by and I have to believe it will include all or most US classics.  Younger collecors don't collect the same as older collectors and probably won't collect old US coins the same way either.  It will be interesting to watch how this all developes over time.  There's a lot of change coming and it will affect everything when it comes to coins.  There are going to be a lot of winners as well as some losers.  Because there are so many collectors who will be collecting in twenty years it's entirely possible that the number of winners will just swamp the number of losers.  This demand will not only come from young collectors in the US but a spectrum of new collectors world wide as well as millions of states quarter collectors coming back to the hobby as young adults.  They will be exciting times and everything will be in flux for a long time now.[/QUOTE]