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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2112954, member: 66&quot;]This is normal.&nbsp; Just giving people coins/sets/etc will not turn them into coin collectors.&nbsp; it is something that has to come from within them.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t have that spark no amount of conjoling, gifts, encouragement, is going to turn them into coin collectors.&nbsp; At least not long term collectors.&nbsp; The ones with that spark do need the exposure though.&nbsp; You exposed your children and grandchildren, I don&#039;t know how many, and you got one score.&nbsp; I would imagine each of those others has their own special interest in something as well, just not coins.&nbsp; And chances are your granddaughter will eventually put the coins aside as well, until she is much older when she may come back to them.&nbsp; But that usually requires another exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many people your own age that you knew growing up collected coins?&nbsp; Probably not many if any.&nbsp; We are a very small percentage of the population as a whole, and that is not going to change.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Examples?&nbsp; And I don&#039;t mean pieces you bought and quickly flipped.&nbsp; Pieces you bought and are holding that are increasing in value please.&nbsp; And are there pieces you have bought and held that are doing badly?&nbsp; And remember you have to make allowance for any appreciation due to PM price increases.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is true, but any selection that is too short and recent is also flawed because there usually isn&#039;t a sufficient &quot;trend over time&quot; of enough length to be meaningful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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