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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bambam8778, post: 3701203, member: 80341&quot;]Very fair concern [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] . Some times it does make you a little down in the dumps. I&#039;m 38 and feel like I&#039;m on the lower of the age range when it comes to collectors in my area. I love reading these threads that are so involved with pages of responses and I feel that I miss responding to what I want to so I&#039;ll tag people here in this response as I read the whole thread. Great topic of conversation to the OP!</p><p>[USER=92092]@John Skelton[/USER] &quot;Until they discover girls!&quot; When we talk about younger numismatists we have to remember that not all of them are male or straight. The vast majority may be, however old stereo types die hard and we all must do a better job of reaching out to anyone who is interested in the numismatic field.</p><p>&quot;oh, that&#039;s right, young people don&#039;t know what a paper is.&quot;</p><p>This is something we need to avoid as well. Young people, especially those who are interested in coins are smart enough to know that advertisements are in paper however the vast majority of folks use the internet so we must adapt and use all venues of advertising.</p><p>[USER=74343]@Evan8[/USER] &quot;I just have a hard time imagining myself owning million dollar coins one day because there is no more interest in coin collecting and they wouldn&#039;t be worth that anymore.&quot;</p><p>This is in no means a negative response to that statement, however if someone is a true collector, wouldn&#039;t it be fantastic to know that you hold a coin that is so rare even though it is not worth anything? That is a true collector to value the coin over the dollar amount it is valued at. All of my morgans and other coins could turn up to be worth nothing and I would still value them as a collector.</p><p>[USER=88934]@CoinCorgi[/USER] &quot;The hobby will continue until the U.S. Mint destroys it by flooding the hobby with tons of crap.&quot;&nbsp; I would tend to agree with this. I hope the mint concentrates on genuine new coinage and allowing the numismatists to concentrate on those items. The current issues are worn out. Classic but worn out. We need new issues to keep the interest of new numismatists.</p><p>[USER=78298]@Michael K[/USER] &quot;The State quarter program brought people into the hobby, but when they found out later their coins are worth face value, they lost interest&quot; I agree and sad to say that those are not the people that are long term numismatically inclined people to begin with.</p><p>[USER=69089]@Maxfli[/USER] , didn&#039;t want to quote your whole first post because of the length of this but you are spot on!</p><p>[USER=15588]@ewomack[/USER] , I hear ya on the baseball card end. I loved that as a kid and I still have all of them. I was a collector so the value didn&#039;t matter as much as it was something that my dad and my brother and I loved. True collector regardless of the value but the market was flooded and thus I think has scene its day.</p><p>[USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER] , I agree with the stamps comment. I look for stamp collections at garage sales. They are all still valid, most hold no value over face and you can still use them to mail things. Most times they can be bought WAY under face value.</p><p>[USER=106822]@CaptainMK[/USER] GREAT response to this thread. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Great!</p><p>[USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER] , Great response to this! Many things I like here. It sounds as though the way you collected is optimal. In change. In circulation. That would be fantastic now and also cannot be the way we do it now (although a limited sector may be had this way). I can imagine your sister coming home with that dollar. What a great way to collect!!! The ending paragraph is the eptimomy of what we need to figure a way around. We need to make it interesting for those who cannot afford to buy their collection and get them interested in this hobby.</p><p>[USER=104042]@Terrifrompa[/USER] , I am under the impression that they only released the 110,000 mintage of that set. If they release an enhanced reverse proof SAE, that is entirely different. Don&#039;t feel cheated.</p><p>[USER=46237]@Jaelus[/USER] &quot;Right. That&#039;s the problem. They <i>did</i> have a century. They <i>wasted</i>most of it. Just because waiting until the last minute is the status quo does not excuse it. It just means they are <i>really bad at planning</i>.&quot; I agree. We cannot keep the same pace we have in the past. The people at the helm are fine with the status quo and only using their time on planning to be reelected. They need to up the pace and move things along faster than ever to serve the people and not their reelection interest.</p><p>[USER=31417]@WRSiegel[/USER] , You sound like a real collector with that response!!!! Keep it up and pass on that way of thinking!</p><p>[USER=17665]@tommyc03[/USER] &quot;Maybe it would help if the next Secretary of the Treasury had coin collecting as a life long hobby as part of his/her resume?&quot; I&#039;ll throw my hat in the ring! I even live close enough to commute! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I think this is the most engaging and interesting thread I have read here on Coin Talk in quite some time. Very entertaining and worth the read! Thanks everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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