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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3569623, member: 15588&quot;]I am suspicious of manufactured collectables such as the &quot;American Innovator&quot; series. Others have already mentioned the &quot;collector&#039;s malaise&quot; that can creep over someone trying to collect everything that the mint puts out. I quit years ago because I realized that it would take too much of my free time, and a chunk of my income, to obtain everything, including sitting by the Mint&#039;s website when highly anticipated releases appear, etc. And for what? To hide it all away in a safe? To leave it to my descendants? Who knows if they will even care? If they don&#039;t care, it probably just creates more hassle for them if they can&#039;t sell the stuff. Or they may not know very much about the coin market and will just get ripped off. If they do care, great, but there is no guarantee that they will.</p><p><br /></p><p>My generation of our family has the collector bug almost to a pathological degree (I&#039;m trying to lose this disease), but the newest generation, now in their mid-late teens, has shown absolutely no interest in collecting anything. No sports cards, coins, stamps, action figures, nothing. All of the collectable things that I was into at their age they couldn&#039;t care less about. Of course sports cards have become expensive, even for some current issues and one can now just go to a store and buy the full set off the shelf. There&#039;s little fun in that. I used to buy packs and trade and haggle with friends over specific cards. Just buying the set would have taken all of the fun out of my experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the above won&#039;t be true for everyone, of course, and things can change over time, but I will retain my suspicion of manufactured collectables, especially as their number increases. The more that keep popping out, the greater the chances that indifference will set in with the public and the collecting community. But of course no one knows the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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