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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AuSgPtHoarder, post: 785629, member: 9817&quot;]Just to preface - long post, but this topic really got me thinking, not just about the races-in-numismatics topic, but what motivates and gets all of us into the hobby in the first place (which I think is really the key to answering this). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think this, in addition to your previous post on this thread really is getting to the heart of it.&nbsp; Most of the time, coin collecting is &quot;passed down&quot; from father to son, and most of the time, the main interest is in the time period which matters to you, or that you can relate to.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your comment about your &quot;start date&quot; got me thinking about it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never really been interested in anything beyond the 1870&#039;s - 1890&#039;s (just coincidence our dates are similar), which is when my great-grandparents came to the U.S.&nbsp; My initial interest was always in those coins I could look at, and hold, and picture my great-grandparents (and grandparents and parents a bit later), using the very same coinage when they were at-the-time-modern issues.&nbsp; So for those without as much US History, say someone whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970&#039;s, they would typically need to pick up the &quot;numismatical urge&quot; on their own, as opposed to following in dad&#039;s footsteps.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also figure that even in the mid-20th century, the country was about 85% white, 11% black, and 4% all others.&nbsp; I&#039;m no expert on how things were before my time (born in &#039;75), but my guess is that in a lot of places, shop owners weren&#039;t all that welcoming back in the bad ol&#039; days for black americans.&nbsp; This would help to supress interest to a degree, and for the other races, their numbers were very low until more recent years, thus, the &quot;American History&quot; isn&#039;t there for them (as nostalgia seems to be a big part of coin collecting for many of us).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All in all, what it means is that there is a longer history, and higher percentages of white collectors, but likely there is a newer and growing future of other races, some of whose own great grandchildren will be holding up a zinc 2009 penny one day, saying, &quot;This was Great-Great-Great Grandfather&#039;s from his first years in the United States, back on Earth.&nbsp; They made coins out of metal then, and only produced hundreds of millions to billions of each issue, not like the mass-produced carbon-fiber coins of today&#039;s Galactic Federation&quot;.&nbsp; Really, I think its just a matter of scale and generations.&nbsp; Every decade that goes by will likely see a rapid diversification of non-caucasian races in the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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