Is Coin Collecting Dead

I'm only 72,73 in June and I started picking coins from my paper route at 8 or 9 years old. Also some from Grandma and Grandpa saved wayback when. I have to many different things I have collected I need to thin them out.

Time coming to pass to my grandson, started him at 10 yrs and he is doing well from garage sales.

I don't think coin collecting as a hobby is dead or even dying. Maybe a good bit less visible, though, as others have stated. I myself got started when I was about 9 and received a gift of a bunch of LWC's from my grandfather, many of which currently reside in my Dansco cent album. I'm 46 now and have never stopped collecting, although there were a few years, mainly in college and when my kids were young, when I was just basically limited to pulling new coins from circulation because I had essentially no budget for anything else.

I would hazard to guess that with the advent of the internet ( Yes I am old enough to remember using newsgroups)the hobby has actually grown.
It is so much easier now to research a coin and to get them.
And now if you have to sell your coins there are a multitude of options instead of just using the one LCS in town.

HeHe
Those were the days, sitting in front of my brand new 386 with a flash VGA monitor and connected via a 144 modem.
Sigh

I remember using dial-in with my fancy 28.8 modem (and, here in Europe, getting a huge phone bill afterwards) and having to wait an hour to download about 5 megabyte of data. I'd say the internet, especially with the quality and speed we have nowadays, is a blessing for hobbies like numismatics where almost unlimited access to an almost unlimited amount of databases and catalogues is almost a prerequisite to properly deal with your collection.

Maybe they enjoy the sound of that dialup connection

Oddly enough they do have one advantage. There are always ignored email messages, ignored phone messages but if someone has a FAX machine and it spits out a piece of paper, sort of hard to ignor.

Fast internet? I am resigned to using a USB wireless card, 4 miles to the tower. My son is trying to download Skyrim from steam at 6k yes 6k.

We sometimes have to use a dial up modem to connect. they still work.