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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2664529, member: 80121&quot;]One of the biggest problems facing coin collecting today is the lack of replacements for baby boomers who are passing away. (I&#039;m a baby boomer and have lost a lot of good friends both in and out of the hobby). When I go to club meetings, the majority of members have grey or no hair, we try with a YN section of the club, but it&#039;s just not enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same problem, with a different cause, happens to different coin forums. I belong to a few and some are doing well and some are dying a slow death. People who have been a member of a forum for a number of years tend to become comfortable with each other and post to and respond to their own little cliques posts. They either ignore or ridicule a new members posts and questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first joined this forum (I consider it one of the better ones) My posts were either ignored or made light of. Do you know what happened? I started to receive PMs from people saying they had the same problem and wish people would be more receptive of new members. I know that it can be tedious for someone who has been a member for some time to see the same question that was answered two years ago asked again, but to a new member they weren&#039;t here two years ago to see that question and it&#039;s answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a retired educator I&#039;m a strong believer that our hobby has to have an educational aspect. This forum has many goals, but I believe an important one is to educate it&#039;s members. For example, how many people know that the U.S. Mint put the &quot;P&quot; mintmark on the Lincoln Cent this year. They did it to celebrate the 225th anniversary year of the mint and purposely did not announce they were going to do it. It&#039;s a one year thing, so it might be a good idea to pick up a few rolls of 2017 cents with the &quot;P&quot; mintmark. I live west of the Mississippi so we tend to only get Denver mintmarks here. My brother who lives in the Northeast, picked up five rolls for me from his local bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>This tread is about &quot;Latest Daniel Carr restrike just arrived&quot;, and I expected to read posts about that topic. I also expected people to post their Daniel Carr restrikes and metals, so I&#039;d know what&#039;s new. I&#039;m not trying to stop people from posting what they want to post, but they really should stay with the topic and start a new thread if they want to discuss something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>End of my Sunday Sermon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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