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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1676178, member: 41665&quot;]I&#039;ll discuss the Middle Market collectors, here.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the USA: are we discussing an Old White Person&#039;s hobby? That fewer and fewer young people are interested in? o.k. - so IT&#039;S DYING. Face facts.&nbsp; It&#039;s irrelevant that there will always be SOMEONE collecting. What&#039;s important is the ratio of &quot;collectors&quot; spending $$ on coins. That percentage is shrinking, poorer, aging - and there&#039;s no replacement for every pensioned oldster croaking.&nbsp; Their collections will come to market and further depress prices.&nbsp; The Great American Coin Grift died in 2007.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ergo, the market(value) is shrinking(dropping.) Coin shops have closed by the thousands in the last two decades, that&#039;s a canary-in-the-coal-mine. Most importantly LOOK AT PRICES, aggregate numbers don&#039;t lie. Coin values have been &amp; continue to fall because the demand is declining not because more people know &#039;what its worth.&#039;&nbsp; Chinese Counterfeits are just the latest big scam in a racket business and people aren&#039;t getting any stupider to that fact either. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing bodes well for US coin collectors now so it makes sense to cherrypick &amp; lowball Ag/Au numismatics from widows &amp; heirs ... lots of collections will be dumped on a falling mkt for pennies on the dollar, for years. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]249983.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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