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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 427321, member: 68&quot;]Long term trends are probably unfavorable to long popular </p><p>and widely collected US coins.&nbsp; There will be numerous ex-</p><p>ceptions but there probably aren&#039;t going to be enough new</p><p>collectors retained by the hobby to absorb the vast nunber </p><p>of coins coming on the market in the next fifteen years from</p><p>retiring old time collectors and the many returning collectors.</p><p>It is this latter group which has been supporting these mar-</p><p>kets and they&#039;ll be slowly dropping out as they retire as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Foreign markets will remain fairly strong and many will actu-</p><p>ally get even hotter.&nbsp; Some of this demand will spill over in-</p><p>to US coins and mitigate the falling demand relative supply </p><p>here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Older US coins that have never been widely collected will be</p><p>mostly immune and some, like the 3c nickel, may even bene-</p><p>fit. </p><p><br /></p><p>It might not be too late to encourage the newbies but it&#039;s far</p><p>too late to imagine it&#039;s ever going to happen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collecting is safe and will go on here and abroad for at </p><p>least two or three generations but look for significant change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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