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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 2111804, member: 10103&quot;]One more thing.&nbsp; I grew up in the sixties and was introduced to coin collecting by my father.&nbsp; Back then you didn&#039;t care all that much about a coins condition while filling a hole in a book.......you reveled in the fact that you found one.&nbsp; If you ordered stuff from the mint you had to do it via the US Mail and the offerings basically only consisted of proof and mint sets.&nbsp; I used to look through&nbsp; a &#039;65 Red Book and dream of owning a Stone Mountain or Daniel Boone commemorative, but I couldn&#039;t afford one in those days.&nbsp; I&#039;d look longingly at the pages and ask myself &#039;why did they stop this program&#039;?&nbsp; Many of us know the answer to that but the fact remains that there was very little available from the US Mint.&nbsp; I&#039;m quite happy with the fact that the mint avails us a much larger selection of products than what I experienced as a young man, and I&#039;m happy with the fact that I can visit a website and view all of those offerings.&nbsp; I enjoy the laser etching on proof coins and the satin finish on silver eagles.&nbsp; Those who would compare the hobby of coin collecting ,and it&#039;s inevitable demise, to the rise and fall of &#039;Beanie Babies&#039; are only in the hobby for one thing.........money.&nbsp; If you can&#039;t make money on something then it ain&#039;t no good.&nbsp; Well then, you&#039;re not a hobbyist, you&#039;re an investor and as such have no place in the hobby for a true hobbyist seeks not personal gain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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