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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2547834, member: 112&quot;]Based on my experience, well over 50 years worth of it, it happens to almost everyone else ! It is totally and completely normal for people to lose interest, and to varying degrees, over the course of their life. Often because life just gets in the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started collecting in 1960 when I was 7 years old. When I began I was quite passionate about it. But by the time I turned 15, not so much. Other things, like girls, simply became more important. I still kept on collecting, and studying, just not to the same degree I did when I was younger. By my early 20&#039;s I was married, starting a family, and simply put there were more important things to spend my money on right then. By my mid 20&#039;s I was divorced, single again, (like has happened to so many others when they get married too young) and the coin bug came back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years it came and went, came and went, and came and went again. It was not until I was in my 40&#039;s, making a whole lot more money than I did when I was young, that it really hit me big time ! The degree of passion I felt for the hobby when I was young was dwarfed by what I discovered then ! And that passion has only increased since then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now oddly enough in my mid 50&#039;s I quit collecting coins completely, sold my entire collection. But that was only because I had discovered that it was the study of coins, not the collecting of them, that I truly loved. And now I&#039;m retired, still studying coins, writing about them, teaching and helping others, and in general just sharing what I have learned over the course of a lifetime. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now few will do what I did, quit collecting completely and yet still be this involved in the hobby. But you can bet that at one time or another, and probably several different times, anybody you ask will have had their interest decrease at least somewhat. Some even stop, and then pick it back up 10-15-20 years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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