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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2809730, member: 10461&quot;]This. </p><p><br /></p><p>Neither of my kids could give a fiddler&#039;s fart about coins, but I&#039;m hoping for an enthusiastic grandchild.&nbsp; Don&#039;t have one of those just yet (son is 26, daughter almost 16).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some enthusiasms skip a generation ... or more.&nbsp; Fashions and fads can all but die out and be taken up again decades later and given a new lease on life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics as a hobby is not likely to go anywhere in our lifetimes.&nbsp; Numbers in the ranks may diminish, and things may evolve, but it&#039;s no passing fad.&nbsp; People have been collecting things for millennia, and coins as a collectible have been around for centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that will continue, even after coins themselves become obsolete in commerce.&nbsp; I would say <i>that</i> event won&#039;t be too long in coming.&nbsp; There&#039;s probably only a generation or two left of people spending pocket change.&nbsp; One wonders if interest will increase or decrease when coins are no longer used as a medium of exchange, and are kept <i>solely</i> as collectibles.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- ditto to the comments about the effect of the Internet on collecting.&nbsp; It sure did revolutionize mine.&nbsp; I too started in the 1970s.&nbsp; I too took a hiatus from about the mid-1980s, but resumed by 1992.&nbsp; But only since the millennium (and my going online) did my collecting really take off, and my knowledge expand exponentially.&nbsp; I have spent my life living mostly in towns with no coin dealers and have never been part of any coin clubs.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t go to shows until my post-Internet era in the early 2000s.&nbsp; So I spent my earlier decades in a bit of a bubble.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I get to talk to all of you ... around the world.&nbsp; It&#039;s awesome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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