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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 25338, member: 1735&quot;]I hope that coins will be in circulation for a long time.&nbsp; </p><p>The thing about a hobby is that there has to a &#039;hook&#039; to interest the new/young collector.&nbsp; When I was a kid, there were lots of cool things to collect in circulation.&nbsp; My favorites were Buffalo nickels, Walking Liberty halves, Mercury dimes, steel pennies, and silver dollars.&nbsp; In 1965, circulating coinage became rather dull, with the introduction of Cupro-Nickel clad coinage.&nbsp; In the 1970&#039;s and early 1980&#039;s, there was a concern that this might create a very tiny next generation of coin collectors because of the rather unexciting coinage in circulation.&nbsp; No silver, all the older design coins were totally gone, no &#039;hook&#039; to spark interest in the next generation of collectors.&nbsp; A numismatic lobby was created to do something that would spark interest in young folks so there would be a large base of new collectors for the next generation.&nbsp; This was the impetus for the 1976 Commerative coins in circulation, then the Anthony dollar, and the 1982 George Washington half dollar, commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth.&nbsp; Since then, this lobby has promoted the idea that there should be something in circulation to get kids interested in collecting, culminating to date with the States Quarters and new nickel commems.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking that most adult coin collectors today started as kids, picking something out of circulation that was odd or unusual, then wanted to know more.&nbsp; It seems to be happening again with the States Quarters program, as just about every family in America has some sort of quarter collection.&nbsp; This should translate into a huge collector base a few years down the road.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think this would have happened if there wasn&#039;t something in circulation to pique the interest of someone who had never thought of collecting coins before.&nbsp; CDB[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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