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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4745536, member: 110350&quot;]Yes.* Just as many women as men are &quot;collectors.&quot; The difference is in what they&#039;re conditioned to collect, starting at a young age.&nbsp; Try going to the Winter Antiques Show sometime!&nbsp; Or, as you mention, look at areas like collecting porcelain, dolls, etc.&nbsp; In any event, I think the disparity is far less for numismatics than it is for things like baseball cards.&nbsp; Especially given the predominance of women in (and entering) academic fields related to numismatics (particularly relating to ancient coins), such as classics, art history, archaeology, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Even if you&#039;re into evolutionary biology -- the popular presentations of which are largely hooey -- it may have been the men who hunted the mammoths, but it was the women who gathered and collected and maintained the fruits and nuts![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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