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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3874951, member: 19463"]As a whole the coin dealers have decided to ignore the junk bin market and concentrate on where the money is in high grade, popular coins. You can't blame them for going for the money that pays the bills but it may not be the best, log term decision. Sixty years ago I went into local coin store upstairs in downtown office buildings where nice old men tolerated me going through dishes of fifty cent bronzes and $5 denarii while I wished I could afford their $50 treasures. They taught me about coins and history. Now beginners are told that they are wasting their money with 'affordable' coins and this self fulfilling prophesy is right unless you count feeding the desire to move up to the better things someday. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are exceptions - especially show dealers encouraging kids and older dreamers. I applaud them. There are many that are pleasant to people not ready to spend $50 and $500 (applying the factor for inflation in the last 60 years) but the hobby seems more aimed on investment coins rather than one that make us feel good felling them with bare fingers. Few of them have coins to sell them. Will enough collectors join the hobby after they have paid off their student loans and built their practices/businesses to replace those now on Social Security? What will be the final resting place for the millions of sub-MS coins when those of us who collected them have finished with them? I hope there will be fingers who want to feel them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3874951, member: 19463"]As a whole the coin dealers have decided to ignore the junk bin market and concentrate on where the money is in high grade, popular coins. You can't blame them for going for the money that pays the bills but it may not be the best, log term decision. Sixty years ago I went into local coin store upstairs in downtown office buildings where nice old men tolerated me going through dishes of fifty cent bronzes and $5 denarii while I wished I could afford their $50 treasures. They taught me about coins and history. Now beginners are told that they are wasting their money with 'affordable' coins and this self fulfilling prophesy is right unless you count feeding the desire to move up to the better things someday. There are exceptions - especially show dealers encouraging kids and older dreamers. I applaud them. There are many that are pleasant to people not ready to spend $50 and $500 (applying the factor for inflation in the last 60 years) but the hobby seems more aimed on investment coins rather than one that make us feel good felling them with bare fingers. Few of them have coins to sell them. Will enough collectors join the hobby after they have paid off their student loans and built their practices/businesses to replace those now on Social Security? What will be the final resting place for the millions of sub-MS coins when those of us who collected them have finished with them? I hope there will be fingers who want to feel them.[/QUOTE]
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