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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2809865, member: 112&quot;]This subject comes up on a regular basis, and it has been doing so for as long as I can remember. Long, long before the internet ever existed ! I started collecting coins in 1960, and it was being talked about even then - and ever since then ! And the same stories, the same scenarios, the same descriptions of how collectors began appear again and again, over and over. Are there some that are different ? Of course there are, but the majority tend to be very, very similar. And over a 60 year period of time. The most common story of all, simple, I started very young, lost interest as I got older - which can vary from the mid teens to the 20&#039;s - and picked it back up again later in life. Which can vary to almost any age - 30&#039;s, 40&#039;s, 50&#039;s ..... .</p><p><br /></p><p>Are things a bit different today ? Yes, but not really, for that common similarity still remains. What is different is the internet of course, and one other thing - what I would call the median age of serious collectors - that has changed. Going back for probably centuries serious collectors were always the older generation. But not any more. Oh sure the older generation is still heavily involved. And I&#039;ve written this here before, but how many of you would be surprised to learn that <u>the majority of the 40,000 plus members of this forum are 30 or younger</u> ? That&#039;s a cold hard fact. Read that again if you need to. That has never before occurred in the history of coin collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>And since the members of this forum also make up the vast majority of all other coin forums, the same can be said of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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