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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 1462307, member: 33176&quot;]BTW, the &quot;American coins are bigger&quot; post was in refference to the tiny picture.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to be sarcastic on-line.&nbsp; Hopefully no one was offended (even by the tongue sticking out).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This issue of collecting American (more properly USA coins) coins has come up before and I have thought about it a lot.&nbsp; Popularity of something is hard to predict (or I could be wealthy).&nbsp; Why is cricket popular in Britain and India and not many other places?&nbsp; Why is soccer popular in most of the world and not in the USA (comparatively)?&nbsp; Why is American Football not popular in other places?&nbsp; In most cases we just have to shrug and go on.&nbsp; I would venture to say that collecting coins of a country is more popular in the particular country in question.&nbsp; I would not expect any other country to have a majority of collectors collecting American coins in any other country than the USA, just like I would expect the majority of collectors of German coins to be in Germany.&nbsp; You guys who collect ancients are in a world of your own.&nbsp; Now, if the hobby is popular, it should follow the demographic of the country in question, &quot;all other things being equal&quot;.&nbsp; By that I mean that the hobby has to first catch on and then watch out.&nbsp; I see China becoming a world force soon, and not necessarily for American coins.&nbsp; The fact that American coins are widely collected is evident if you do a search for the world&#039;s most expensive coins.&nbsp; Of the top 10, 8 are American coins, and of the other two, one of them is that odd kilogram Canadian &quot;coin&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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