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<p>[QUOTE="Wayne Boswell, post: 2283542, member: 76446"]Just a thought that has often crossed my mind lately, as a coin-collector and a 'boomer'. They say 10,000 boomers are retiring daily. I expect that boomers make up the majority of the coin-collecting population, as their generations generally had more disposable income per capita, and thus came to collect almost anything. As boomers like myself retire, our income & lifestyle changes. We start to look for sources of extra income. Ah-ha, selling our coin collections. Of course, the number of boomers expiring daily will be drastically increasing, and so lots of coin-collectors will be gone. The younger generations have so much technologies and other areas of interest in which to spend their extra dollars. Couple this with the fact that coin collecting isn't what is was in the 40's & 50's, when you found the coins to fill your album in pocket change. It just seems to me the hobby is in (or in for) a serious downslide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Wayne Boswell, post: 2283542, member: 76446"]Just a thought that has often crossed my mind lately, as a coin-collector and a 'boomer'. They say 10,000 boomers are retiring daily. I expect that boomers make up the majority of the coin-collecting population, as their generations generally had more disposable income per capita, and thus came to collect almost anything. As boomers like myself retire, our income & lifestyle changes. We start to look for sources of extra income. Ah-ha, selling our coin collections. Of course, the number of boomers expiring daily will be drastically increasing, and so lots of coin-collectors will be gone. The younger generations have so much technologies and other areas of interest in which to spend their extra dollars. Couple this with the fact that coin collecting isn't what is was in the 40's & 50's, when you found the coins to fill your album in pocket change. It just seems to me the hobby is in (or in for) a serious downslide.[/QUOTE]
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