Impressive Collection On Youtube

I don't like making assumptions...but I'd have to say mommy and daddy's or gram and gramps money... Or trust fund/gifts, again from one of the fore-mentioned.
I agree, a great collection but a total turn off for me as well.. No close ups, no highlighting single, nice examples, more of- "Haha.. Look what I have"
And I agree that it is a horrible idea posting that on YouTube.. Guns or not..

Comments are appropriate, but please don't lose sight of who we are around here. We don't mock for the sake of mocking.

I'm really surprised with some of these comments making assumptions about how he financed his collection. I'm not sure anyone here knows the situation surrounding this young man. Perhaps he has been working since he was 14 and every penny that went into this collection he earned on his own.

I think that this collector is clearly very passionate about coins. I admit that I made similar assumptions as some of the above commenter's but I think that YNs such as this are adding to the hobby in positive ways and possibly encouraging more young people to collect by giving them something impressive to strive towards.

I have a whole lot of opinions on this video. Here are some of them.

I do believe many of the more derisive comments in this thread are rooted in a bit of jealousy, with some justification. Jealousy that this individual much younger than most of us has a more expansive and valuable collection. Coin collecting has been in my family for ages and I started collecting when I was 5. It wasn't until I was 14 that I ever bought any coin or even gained any kind of real perception of what to collect. To have this collection at age 19, it is not entirely presumptuous to think that the individual either a)inherited most of it or b)was simply throwing money around that he did not earn. It is absurd to think that that someone that age got that amount of money through summer jobs. In the off chance that they did technically earn it all since high school graduation, how would one obtain such a position without even a college degree...rich dad. I hate to say it, but this is indeed probably a rich kid who inherited the collection or a rich kid who bought the collection.

It is a pretty bad time in American society right now to be rich and to flaunt it. The video is in poor taste and as someone else already pointed out, quite arrogantly made and not particularly effective at actually showing off any numismatic gems.

Since I am also fairly young, though years older than 19, I can speak for my extended generation that there is this idea that online exposure is completely ok and that they are invincible. Young people tend to way over share these days. The manner in which this video has been made and what it shows was really pushing it though. He may have indeed put himself at risk. I also think that naive attitude is something I have seen in the more "parents earned it" affluent individuals I know off. I really feel sorry for them, but many people are going to target them just for who they are and they don't even know it.

Lastly, I want to comment on something else regarding this collection. I have also built a reasonably sized collection that has some decent value at a relatively young age...though my collection is smaller and less valuable and I am older than this person. I can tell ya, I have some difficulty finding coins I still want and don't know what I'll do as I get even older. There's plenty out there, but I won't just buy things for the sake of buying them. Most of the thrill in coin collecting comes from collecting and not having IMO. This guy has way too much with too much time left to try to find more.

Instinct tells me you are the fabled "Chris".

Um, you realize that the person you're addressing is old enough to be your grandfather, right? I'd at least wait until I were old enough to vote before starting to talk about "instinct"....