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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 734879, member: 8033&quot;]Interesting topic and intersting responses so here&#039;s mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stamps have been hit beyond hard. I see it at work everyday as we still buy and sell them. We sell real cheap. We buy even cheaper.</p><p>For the most part stamp collectors are literally dying off. It&#039;s a shame and the deluge of stamps offered in any given year is part of the problem.</p><p>YES, I see the similarities with the junk the mint puts out every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Baseball cards? Never got into them but my cousin has one heck of a business going buying and selling. Course he only deals in the &quot;old&quot; stuff. Probably 60s at the latest. So YES the stuff from the 70s on he&#039;s not even interested in unless he HAS to buy it to get the good stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>How does this parallel coins? You can buy everything the mint has to offer in any given year. Most of the time you&#039;ll lose unless you dump it fast and even then you really have to pick and choose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously how &quot;hot&quot; is a Louis Braille coin going to be? A Girl&nbsp; Scouts coin? Sure, great for gifts but we&#039;ll end up buying them at work at a fraction of cost. THEN they&#039;ll gather dust on our shelves. Every time I see a new mint coin I look at it this way. How long before people are selling them to us at the coin shop and do we even want them? Usually it&#039;s no but I don&#039;t own the shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>NOW, walk in the door with a &quot;real and proven coin&quot; it&#039;s a different story. An 1877 Indian Cent? We want it. An 1893-S Morgan dollar? We want it. An 1872 Two Cent Piece? (had to toss that in). We want it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hey, we all have our own tastes. So get what you want. Coin collecting has been around for a long time and will continue to thrive in one fashion or another.</p><p>Honestly though the mint is pushing it too far.</p><p>The state quarters got a lot of people into the hobby. Now the overload of coins is driving many of these same people out. Too much stuff and a LOT of the collectors are elderly and saved them for grandchildren.</p><p>Give an 83 year old woman the news that the program will go on for another 11 years or so and guess what the answer is? Believe me I&#039;ve seen it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully the grandkids will appreciate it but I&#039;ve learned over the years one can not MAKE a coin collector. The hobby interests you or it doesn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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