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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bonedigger, post: 383170, member: 4367&quot;]Well, one has to look at the various demographic slices of the participants in the current monetary system used world-wide (with emphasis placed on the United States of America) based upon the context of your question.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From yesteryear even to today the focus of some minorities is placed upon the acquisition of monies needed for basic items of physical sustainment.&nbsp; Believe me when I say &quot;It was much harder for some just a generation (30 years or so) ago to have enough cash on hand to simply buy food and clothing.&quot;&nbsp; Many families were comprised of one bread-winner who worked in a manual labor/menial position and had several mouths to feed on a daily basis, with possibly a few bad (ahem, expensive) habits along the way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When the numismatic seed is planted in a youngsters mind, it usually takes root (in a shoebox or cigarbox), there also has to be a roof over the head, food on the table, shoes on their feet, and love expressed for one another.. REGULARLY.&nbsp; Unfortunately, this was not the case in the small town Texas, (on the other side of the tracks) where I grew up in the 60s-80s.&nbsp; Shoebox cardboard was cut up to strengthen shirt collars which had been handed down for 2 or 3 generations and cigar boxes were cut to fit into a shoe with a hole in the bottom of it, very sad but true. Times were tough for some and that&#039;s the way it was...</p><p><br /></p><p>FLASH FORWARD 40 YEARS -- Expendable income which is now over-flowing abundantly with various Social Programs&nbsp; (which could possibly used for stamp/coin/etc., collecting, but obviously is not) is a new concept for certain ethnic groups here in the &#039;Good Ole&#039; USA&#039; and given time you might eventually see the change happen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I sure hope so (very soon) for they (gangsters/druggies) are definitely on the wrong track with no leadership in the inner cities, spending more on a 9mm glock that will kill, than on a Capped Bust Half Dollar which will (along with History Books) enrich and enlighten.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Rant is Over...</p><p><br /></p><p>Take Care</p><p>Ben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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