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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2360076, member: 76863&quot;]One thing we often forget with the passing of time is that the population will only continue to grow.&nbsp; Today the population in the USA is over 320 million, 50 years ago it was about 195 million.&nbsp; Just to put that in perspective with made up numbers if 50 percent of the people back then were collectors that would give us 97.5 million collectors.&nbsp; Today is 30 percent of the population are collectors that gives us almost the exact same number. There is a pretty good chance just from population growth that we have a larger number of collectors today even if the percentage of the population collecting has diminished.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would be considered a next generation collector and fall into the category of someone who almost never uses cash.&nbsp; Unless a store offers a discount for cash it is just cheaper to use a credit card and get the cash back or the rewards.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People are drawn to collecting for various reasons whether it be a family member, finding something cool, the history of the coins, just liking them, starting with bullion ect.&nbsp; There was a time most started by collecting pocket change, I strongly suspect that is no longer the case and other reasons draw them into collecting these days which won&#039;t be going away anytime soon.&nbsp; Even cash will be around long after any of us are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We have been past the point of demand keeping up with the mint supply for quite sometime.&nbsp; Just look at how many mint products sell below the mint price on the after market.&nbsp; You can usually count the number of products that appreciate in value on one hand from the mint each year.&nbsp; If demand was actually keeping up these would at least hold their issue price.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very true all we can do is take educated guesses to make predictions.&nbsp; There is a lot to worry about with the future, whether or not people will be collecting isn&#039;t one of them in my opinion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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