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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4024514, member: 112"]What happened to it ? It never existed to begin with is what happened to it. Back in the days that classic commems were being issued, most of the people who bought them were basically kind of like the TV coin buyers of today - "Oh look Martha, lets get one so we can remember this !" OR - "What a deal, that'll be worth a lot of money some day !"  Sure there were some actual collectors who bought them, but they never achieved wide spread popularity. The group who did was rather small actually, kinda like modern day bullion collectors in that that regard. About 10% of collectors actually collect modern bullion coins, while 90% see them as nothing more than chunks of precious metal and buy and sell them as such. The thing that keeps and has kept coin collecting alive for 2,000 years is the wide variety of coins available. There's basically something for everybody out there, something they like, something about a particular kind, type, series or group of coins that appeals to them. And then there are those who like them all ! Some like to ride the popularity wave and some like to be individualists. While others like to be a little of both.[/QUOTE]