I just recently got into it, am 48. I have 2 sons one 17 and the other 10. They did not even know about silver coins until I told them I was wanting to start accumulating them (I'm not a collector of them per se but more an accumulator at the moment). But, I have an affinity for things old and the older Barbers, Walkers, Liberty's, Mercury's, Morgans and Peace coins...I enjoy showing them to the kids and seeing their expressions on how neat and interesting the coins are. I've always been a bit of a historian and of course it is fun telling them about how they get their names, what time periods they were made in, and to think of the history they beheld. They were used as common currency by those that built this country and preserved it through two world wars..Earl