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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2810104, member: 15062&quot;]In my opinion, Numismatics is very close to going the way that Philatelics went.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one time the BEP printed interesting postage and limited the yearly output of designs. Then, in the 1970&#039;s they began pumping out scores of designs, with totals of multi millions. Before that you could put one or two year&#039;s output on a single album page; now one year&#039;s output will fill four to five pages. It really got to the point that no one could keep up and the subject matter was more boring [Disney characters, cats, old cars, etc] than educational.&nbsp; That, plus the advent of machine postage printing cheapened the joy of stamp collecting to the point where it&#039;s nearly non-existent today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, with the multiplicity of different cent, nickel, quarter and dollar designs, plus the cheaper metallic content, boring designs and decreasing usage due to plastic, I see modern coinage more as tokens than actual collectible coinage.&nbsp; A good percentage of the mint&#039;s output today isn&#039;t even intended to be used in commerce; it&#039;s made only to be collected by those who have been coerced into thinking that they have to have one of everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the past joy of collecting was in the hunt for the harder to find rarities.&nbsp; Now, with hundreds of millions of examples being minted there are very few hard to find examples and, for the most part we&#039;re reduced to hunting for minute &quot;errors&quot; that require 10x magnification to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, it&#039;s becoming a more and more expensive hobby that not everyone who wants to participate can afford to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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