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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RomaniGypsy, post: 1696814, member: 49234&quot;]I agree, actually. I think it doesn&#039;t have anything to do with age - it has more to do with coins being more abundant and less valuable. When my dad was a kid (1940s - 1950s), different types of coins were found in abundance because they changed frequently. Let&#039;s face it - the Buffalo nickel lasted 25 years. The Jefferson nickel has lasted, thus far, 75 years... with the only changes occurring very recently. In my dad&#039;s time, you could go through rolls of coins and find stuff of true value. These days, it ain&#039;t so easy. (My dad said that, in 1965 when they converted the dime and quarter over to worthless base metal and the half over to a much lower silver content, the silver coins in circulation disappeared &quot;almost overnight&quot;. Gee, I wonder why.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The billions upon billions of coins minted in recent years (most of which are only worth face value) make it harder to find good stuff because they flood the market. Coin collecting requires much more patience now, even compared to how it was when I was a kid... which was still significantly different compared to when my dad was a kid! After all, what new collector really wants to have to look at coins from rolls under a high-powered magnifying glass in hopes of finding an error? To me, that&#039;s boring. It&#039;s much nicer to look at pennies and pick out the wheaties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, if the Mint wants to make more coin collectors, they ought to release some VERY low-mintage coins into circulation without telling anyone first, and then a month or so later, do a press release on how these coins have been put into circulation. Suddenly you have more coin collectors, as they scramble to find the coins! At that point, maybe the hobby will stick with several of them. (Of course, it really doesn&#039;t benefit the Mint to have lots of coin collectors... or so it seems to me... so I would imagine that this hypothetical scenario has a very doubtful chance of gelling into reality.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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