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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The age group breakdown is odd - nobody is under 20 years old? I started in my early teens, was quite active for a couple years in the high school coin club, dropped it, then started pursuing it again starting in my 50s. I suspect the same pattern might apply to many other collectors. Of course I was always pulling anything interesting out of change, and foreign coins when I traveled. I would consider it more of a rich person's hobby, which tends to correspond with older age. "Rich" from the standpoint that you have money to spend on hobbies instead of food and housing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a lifelong coin enthusiast. I had my hands on coins before I was 10, started starting my own 'collections' at about 11 or 12.. it's been an on-and-off thing but I am still at it at 56..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I agree that serious coin collecting is an older person's hobby, but to make very good sense of it, experience and a good depth of background knowledge is a particular advantage. That depth of knowledge comes with age. The other advantage is that in most cases, older collectors have more discretionary disposable income. BTW, I don't have a beard, and the top of my head is not like the dome on St Paul's cathedral !  But I am in the 66% group, and also like most, I started collecting in my 'teens. Edited by sel_69l
04/11/2023 06:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coin Collector Age
Coin Collector Years Percentages
40+ years 66%
30-40 years 23%
20-30 years. 11% This is a pretty bad measure using %. The 20 to 40 and 30 to 40 are just a range of 10 years each (and 30 and 40 are counted twice), the 40+ covers 40-50 years. A good measure would have have pre 19. 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ That would have been a better measure. At 53 I don't consider myself old. Edited by hfjacinto
04/11/2023 07:33 am
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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World coins was part of how I got hooked as a kid.
I loved geography, so being able to have coins from those far away places was a real trip.
Allowance money and then part-time job income as teenager would go pretty far when you could buy modern world coins at something like a quarter per coin from mail order coin dealers.
And, referring back to that other thread, I see the median age was 51. If that's a codger, I hate to think what I would be called at more than a decade past that.
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Valued Member
United States
218 Posts |
I got started when I was about 6 years old, looking through my dad's change jar. I'm in my early 20s now so I'm still much younger than most coin collectors. As a college student with little disposable income, most of my acquisitions have been circulation finds, with a limited amount of coin roll hunting in there. There was never a coin club at my high school, and there isn't one at my university either - but when I tell my friends about coin stuff, they at least seem to think it's somewhat interesting...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
735 Posts |
No age bracket for us, pre-20  C'mon google atleast give us 1% I've been collecting for a couple years... Favorite Coin's are Standing Liberty quarters, Working on my type set | Coffee, Corvettes, Coins & the CCF what could be better? Edited by Jakes Coins
04/11/2023 10:10 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am 19, have been collecting for a few years, and likely going to stay active in the hobby to a degree my entire life.
Many people go through the phase of childhood interest, temporarily stopping with coins when raising a family and working a full time job, and getting back into coins in their 40's or 50's.
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 United States
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At 53 I don't consider myself old. but at 61 (almost) I do consider myself old(er) and I feel every year that was inflicted on me. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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By my reckoning 3 out of 20 unique responses to this thread are under 20. That's 15%. We need an accurate survey.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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I agree that numismatics is a hobby that requires a sufficient amount of money. Every year your requests grow and your interests expand. That's why you want more coins and no lower than VF/XF.
I am 22, I started collecting coins at the age of 14. Ie, I have been in this hobby for more than 8 years.
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United States
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That's why you want more coins and no lower than VF/XF When searching out coins for my collection, my standards are a bit higher - I search out BU and proofs first, and if I cannot find the coin I need in that condition, I slowly lower my expatiations until I find the coin I want, knowing that I got it at the highest affordable grade. |
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Valued Member
United States
470 Posts |
I started into this hobby when I was five and my Dad gave me some German coins from the war. Stopped when I was 24 when my collection was stolen. Now started again at 72 as I missed it. I'm sending little coin sets to all my grandchildren to see if anything sparks an interest (6 of them ages ranging from 2 to 27). I feel the hobby can be an enjoyable experience and distraction at any level, any age. I am having fun from seeking out more expensive coins (to me) that I just like, to the renewed excitement of going through change and a few rolls to see what pops up. Hoping I can get a grandkid's interest!
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Valued Member
United States
345 Posts |
61 here ... just a theory, the coolest coins (my opinion) cost a bit more money and "older" people have more of it :)
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Valued Member
United States
470 Posts |
I was an avid collect from age 5 until I was 24. Then my collection was stolen. So I went on a 50 year hiatus from coins and only collected stamps as nobdy steals stamps. Now after nearly 50 years I am back and loving it. Did not realize how much I missed it.
And yes, I overkill the organizing, cataloging and arranging the coins. The more complex the better!
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