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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 876795, member: 112&quot;]I don&#039;t know of an accurate estimate of the <u>total</u> number of coin collectors, let alone one by denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you ask the US Mint, there were 120 million people collecting the State Quarters. That number is absurd in my opinion, beyond absurd.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you ask Q. David Bowers he estimates there are approx 1.5 million coin collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>People on this forum have estimated everywhere from 200,000-300,000 to the 120 million the mint estimates.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, just throwing coins from your change into a jar on the dresser does not make you a coin collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, coin collectors at least have to have some purpose in mind. And they have to organize their coins. They don&#039;t have to collect by sets necessarily. But they are collecting for any of a myriad of reasons and actively seeking out the coins. Even if that is just going through their pocket change looking for specific coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those would be the minimum requirements before I would call anyone a coin collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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