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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3975121, member: 76863&quot;]No it didn&#039;t.&nbsp; As I said, &quot;Aside from collecting pocket change this hobby takes money which is why it has always been something dominated by older generations and always will be&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a statement of cost.&nbsp; If you want to collect more than that you will have to pay over face value and in most cases many many multiples of face.&nbsp; Even that 2 dollar cent is many many multiples of face and you will also end up getting actually dismissed by much of the hobby.&nbsp; Just look at how people who ask about pocket change are treated here and some other forums.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You read way to much into what was being said. It was just a simple statement of cost for why younger people even if they wanted to would likely not be super active participants.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even though younger people are driving the hobby more which some do not like, but it&#039;s almost certainly dominated by everything for older folks on the collectors side. There&#039;s collectors of all ages certainly, but it will always be an older generation hobby.&nbsp; Teens, kids, people in their 20s will very likely never be the majority of the collecting population or time spent as they don&#039;t have the funds or the free time trying to build careers and families or raise a young kid or work and go to school or sports and so on.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The collecting population as a whole is much bigger than many who just measure ANA membership, show attendance, magazines etc, but it remains true the two things you generally need in this hobby are time (whether learning looking enjoying whatever) and money to make purchases.&nbsp; Even if you&#039;re just roll searching bank boxes that takes time and a starting fund to make the switch for coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Free time and money are two things that older people have more of than younger people and there&#039;s no reason to think that will change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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