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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 879306, member: 66&quot;]Over the years I have visited this question several times and I have used three different methods to arrive at an estimate of the number of collectors.&nbsp; In each case the estimates settled around a figure of 1.5 to 2 million collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to class collectors by denomination is a little misleading.&nbsp; Grouping them by series makes more sense.&nbsp; There are probably more collectors of Lincoln cents than anything else.&nbsp; But the number of collectors of Indian head cents is MUCH smaller, and of large cents smaller still.&nbsp; There are probably more collectors of dollars though than nickels, but more collectors of Buffalo nickels than Peace dollars, and more collectors of Morgans than Indian head cents.&nbsp; Lots of people collect Mercury dimes, almost no one collects seated dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also believe that most collectors tend to collect the coins that were circulating while they were children, and the series before that one.&nbsp; Ususally the one that circulated when they were children theyare so-so about and they really like the older series.&nbsp; When I begin collecting most of the &quot;old white guys&quot;were collecting Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, and Franklin halves&nbsp; For the older series there were a lot of collectors of V Nickels, Barber coins, and Walking Liberty haves.&nbsp; Today the number of people building collections of V nickels. barbers, and walkers has declined considerably.&nbsp; Now the current sets are collected and thier older sets are the Buffalos, Mercury, and Franklins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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