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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 529252, member: 66&quot;]Everyone always says that Coin collecting is dying because if you go to a show and loot around you see a lot of old white guys a relatively few young people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well as someone who has been around a long time I&#039;ll clue you in. . . it&#039;s always been like that.&nbsp; When i joined my first coin club back in 1975 there were around 100 members and the average age was 55 years old.&nbsp; Most everyone who was a member back when I joined is now dead, the club still has about 100 members, and the average age is still 55 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1989 I moved and joined two other local clubs which each had around 100 members (different cities).&nbsp; One of these clubs recently had it&#039;s 50th anniversary and the other is approaching it&#039;s 60th.&nbsp; They recently compared their demographics from their early years to the current ones.&nbsp; Back when they stated the average age in each was 56.&nbsp; Today in one it&#039;s 56 and the other is 57.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason Coins looks like an &quot;Old white guys&quot; hobby is because most people who come in as young people get exposed, are around a year or two and then drop out as school, cars, girls, starting a career, and raising a family intervene.&nbsp; Then as the kids go off to college or to their own family and career, the bug bies again and they return to coins as &quot;old white guys&quot; and then stay for decades.&nbsp; So in their early years (saya 20 year period) there may never be more than one of them around at a time, but in the later years they all gather in and all twenty will be there at the same time and for many years as old white guys.&nbsp; It tends to skew the viewpoint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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