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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 38444, member: 57463&quot;]Clifford Mishler has a model: he says that collecting is a gene you do <u>not </u> inherit.&nbsp; In other words, there is something about collectors that makes them a certain kind of identifiable person, but it often skips generations.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am writing an article now about Proof Double Eagles and one of the big collectors of Proof U.S. gold was Ed Trompeter.&nbsp; His daughters were not interested in the coins, only the money that the sale of the coins would bring.&nbsp; That echoes almost exactly the words of Lorin G. Parmelee.&nbsp; He had one big sale in 1890 and another later.&nbsp; Interviewed for <i>The Numismatist</i>, he said that his kids had no interest in the coins, just the money that their sale would bring.&nbsp; On the other hand, there was some interest across generations in the Garrett family, though not much.&nbsp; Hallenbeck, Stack, Kagin, Berk there are a few generational firms in the hobby.&nbsp; ANA President Moritz Wormer&#039;s son, Charles, continued in the coin business as New Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s.&nbsp; I am not aware of another generation after that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(It could be worse. Imagine the dismay of Marcus Aurelius -- and someone had to be the parents of the king known as Charles the Simple.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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