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Carl, that's very generous! I want to wait to get anything together until MorganFred is back with us. He is our Scout liaison and I want to get his opinion before getting anything together.

We also have the option of offering contests here for kids (any collectors under age 18). Your sets would be great for these also. I anticipate having more younger numismatists here with this school year (hopefully).

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Originally posted by Susanlynn9

Carl,
We also have the option of offering contests here for kids (any collectors under age 18). Your sets would be great for these also. I anticipate having more younger numismatists here with this school year (hopefully).

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That is an easy thing to do, Every youngster under 18 on this forum can send me his adress (by mail), I will send him/her a serie of Juliana 1980, that's the last year we used the 1 cent piece here, after that we rounded every thing of to 5 cents.

Every kid over 18 who want's it has to send a serie from his own country in return

IF ND want's, and he can use them for his next coinfest, I'm willing to support it with a few original mint sets as well, I have several double sets from the Netherlands, Netherlands antillies, and Aruba.
He just have to give me a note.

Greetings, Carl.

Yes Adim, I do, so I will put them in the next enveloppe for you :-)

Greetings, Carl

The one thing going on right now that wasn't just a few years ago that will spark some collector interest is the new designs for the quarters and nickels. I mean, we went for years with the same old tired designs so who was inspired to collect anything from circulation? It almost seems to me that for kids, it has to start with pulling things out of circulation. We can now look forward to the next State Quarter, and the next new nickel. This might help to lay the foundation for more advanced collecting in the future.

Yep Carl, that's a good question....as soon as I wrote that statement, I realized oh boy, here I am thinking just about us here in the U.S. again. I do need to learn to look beyond the end of the nose on my face someday! Shame on me! (especially since my ancestry is The Netherlands!)

I would like to suggest that perhaps we are asking the wrong question. Look at the eras where coin collecting had the fastest amount of growth--in America: the 1850's or the lead up to the Civil War, the 1930's or the Great Depression, the so called "Nifty-Fifties" or atomic bombs and the not so nifty start of Mutually Assured Destruction, the mid 60's which had a host of issues along with in your face protesters.

IMO, to collect coins you have to be inclined towards introversion. There are alot of reason why people will accept introversion and even seek it but one of the major reasons, IMO, is because they see the external world going to hell in a hand basket and withdraw from it.

The conditions in the world today are such that there is going to be a steady stream of people withdrawing from it possibly for at least the next ten years. This is a major growth potential for coin collecting if we can *keep them.* ---it's already built, they will come. But will they stay?

We should tell new coin collectors from the get-go "that all is not what it seems" (Al Pacino--The Recruit). That market grading is not precise. That the standards can and have changed. And if they don't find that terribly appealing then there are ways to marginalize market grading and TPG's--such as with darkside coins. We should tell them that coinstreet is not wallstreet. Coins are more likely to do nothing for years and perhaps even decades and then *maybe* take a big jump. And then not do again for awhile.

They should be told that coin collecting can be whatever they want it be and not necessarily what "market makers" want it to be. People who have had a belly full of the external world don't need to hear more rules like: "only buy the highest grade coin that you can afford. Only buy it from this TPG because they suck the least. The next generation will be looking for purpose and direction. They won't be looking to pull the market grading rikshaw behind their backs. They should be told that they can collect whatever they want in whatever grade they want.

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Originally posted by national dealer
Mike is correct. My time is at a very big premium now, as the major season for us gets started, but I am working on next years CoinFest dates and activities. I will post all the final details by years end.

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My offers for the next coinfest are still open ND, if you need something else from this side, just let me know.

Greetings, Carl