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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2932395, member: 76863&quot;]Coin shows are only respresentative of coin shows not collecting in general.&nbsp; Younger people do primarily if not exclusively buy online.&nbsp; It’s certainly not the coin show crowd accounting for the huge popularity in modern collectible bullion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Price declines in areas aren’t an indicator of a declining hobby either.&nbsp; What it is an indicator of is collecting is changing majorly.&nbsp; Set building is declining and collector money is getting spread out over many more areas than before.&nbsp; World coins are countless times more popular now than several decades ago as one example.&nbsp; The internet also put downward pressure on some prices.&nbsp; Most of the price declines are in common grade common date things from the glut always available.&nbsp; Some of the others are from are from things previously thought to be scare that just aren’t.&nbsp; The premium stuff for the grade can often sell above price guide, that wouldn’t happen in a dead hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>The hobby has supposedly been dying since the very first person started collecting.&nbsp; Every generation seems to think they’re the last that will want to collect yet the hobby is still alive.&nbsp; Collecting has never been a hobby populated by children or teens and never will due to their lack of money.&nbsp; Plenty of people pick it up later in life and will continue to do so[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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