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Message:: [QUOTE="warman, post: 8711, member: 678"]I agree with your overall goal to keep interest going, I just see the "root" problem differently. I say let the government decide what they want about coinage, we as collectors and people will decide what is worthy of collection and what is not. Isn't that what collecting is all about? Collecting the government "screw-ups" and their sometimes questionable decisions on coinage are why we look through our pocket change to begin with hoping to find that special error coin or date, etc.! As collectors and people wanting to share the experience to all about collecting, I don't necessarily want to "guide" our government about coinage changes (unless they want to approve the old Saddam Iraqi money as legal tender), let them change what they want. The problem is  lack of information. So many "dealers" count on the ignorance of the collecting public to gouge them on prices for mediocre coins or new ones readily available to the public from other sources. We wouldn't lose 100 million collectors if our collecting associations (national to local), grading services, etc. ran a constant PR campaign on what coins are available and where to get them (i.e. local dealers, etc.) I should know as an average citizen, where to buy special coins be it the Mint directly or local coin dealers or ??? I ask - What are our Dealer Associations, Coin Collecting Associations and others doing to spread the word on collecting? I know are individual efforts such as those on this forum, but we need a bigger, more organized effort, to promote the joys of coin and currency collecting. Let the government do their thing, the control of collecting and generating interest should come primarily from the hobby itself and it's organizations and dealers.[/QUOTE]

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