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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4747450, member: 51347&quot;]I kinda have a personal stake in this with my career.&nbsp; Over the years, I have been providing consumer products to various markets.&nbsp; Many of them have been provided to a collectors&#039; market.&nbsp; However, I do find (actually know), that there are very female-centric collectors and male-centric collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>For several years I was in Housewares products that had a major tendency to female purchasers.&nbsp; However, with the advent of cooking shows on TV, etc. many males became more attracted to those markets.&nbsp; Cookware, knives, containers, etc. were my exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, when you moved production into sporting knives, pocket knives, multi-tools, etc. you found that a predominately MALE market was being served.&nbsp; And, if you made the knives and tools COLLECTIBLE, such as major influencer endorsements, or task specific, the MALE COLLECTOR emerged in FULL-FORCE.&nbsp; Males dominated these markets around 95% of end-consumers in those collectible markets.&nbsp; Loyalty can be very fierce to brand and collectible features.</p><p><br /></p><p>THe same situation and habits emerged when we produced and provided consumer product to the CRAFT market (Sewing, Quilting, Memories/Scrapbooking, etc.):&nbsp; FEMALE consumers were dominate to the tune of almost 99% of those markets. When we moved into the COLLECTIBLE segment of those markets, wow, there was a fierce need to collect by those consumers.&nbsp; We had some of the most vocal consumers, not only commenting, but also recommending products to develop and provide to those markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal experience producing and providing for gender-oriented segments of markets, was that we were not SEEKING a gender to serve, rather it was the NATURE of that market we served that was gender-dominate.&nbsp; However, the MECHANICS and PSYCHOGRAPHIC approaches to Male or Female collecting were very similar, it was just that the end-products and message delivered to attract consumption were tailored to the gender-specific end-consumer.&nbsp; Nothing was sexist in the least bit:&nbsp; you tailored product, size, colors, messages, materials, textures, etc. etc. etc. to your end-consumer for their optimal response.</p><p><br /></p><p>LOL, yeah, I also produced and provided to the Back-to-School Markets with several hand-held learning tools.&nbsp; Wow, introducing collectibility with colors, textures, shapes, etc. was fun.&nbsp; Children from pre-school to collegiate levels responded with vigor if you were sensitive to their needs, fads, fashions, etc. where they perceived they wanted a specific attribute.&nbsp; Yeah, there were male dominated colors and features that were responded by male users, and there were female dominated colors and features that were responded by female users.&nbsp; Sometimes that was defined by the PARENTS who purchased those school items for their KIDS.&nbsp; Sometimes it was the child who pointed to the shelf and said &quot;I want this&quot; when Back-to-School items were being purchased.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I found these same gender-influenced purchasing and collecting habits, albeit with different colors, features, fads, and trends within the North American, European, and Asian markets.&nbsp; Nothing really was different from a psychographic position between genders from these major markets being served.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bear in mind, that we provided Consumer Products that were DISCRETIONARY decision buying.&nbsp; You did not HAVE to buy the products as they were not NEEDS like food, basic clothing, basic housing, etc. for a person&#039;s survival.&nbsp; Rather, you bought the products as a WANT to fulfill your life.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, coin collecting, and further to ANCIENTS Coin Collecting is definitely a DISCRETIONARY and a LUXURY purchase.&nbsp; You do not need them, but you have a WANT for them, all the way to a COLLECTIBLE WANT to purchase them.&nbsp; Hmmm... gender-specific?&nbsp; Observation is that, yes, it is gender-dominated.&nbsp; Is it the Coin Market creating that?&nbsp; Or is it just the gender that is creating that?&nbsp; I cannot and will not make an educated judgement because I am not EMPLOYED to do that.&nbsp; That would cost you a bit of money for me to do that.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the first living female on a Roman coin...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159766[/ATTACH]</p><p>RI Alexandria Livia, w Augustus Diobol CE 1-2 Æ 23.5mm 7.46g.&nbsp; Rev. Athena holding Nike Sheild ex Dattari-Savio Pl. 3 60-this coin RPC pag. 692-5-this coin RARE[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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