How Many Girl/Lady Collectors Are There?

My grandpa has been a long time coin collector and I always enjoyed listening to him talk about his collection (though I never saw the full collection until I got serious about collecting - he keeps it in a safety deposit box). I always saved wheat pennies or foreign coins I came across. One year, my grandpa gave all of the grandkids a folder for the State Quarters. That's what really got me started. I did the quarters and then bought a Lincoln Cent folder, then moved on to nickels and dimes and then I graduated to the albums. When I decided that I wanted to get serious about collecting, I knew I needed to learn more. I googled coin collecting and the first hit was CCF. I've been a member of the family ever since.

my dad got me into this wonderful hobby. he would always show me his whitman and dansco albums of all his different coins. he started me off on pennies. he bought me a whitman album and I started to fill the holes. my grandmother and dad would always give me their change. the funny thing is that the change me grandmother would give me, I would often find Indian Head cents. I would pull those aside and keep them. it wasn't until I got into high school and bought my first dansco album, which was the indian head album and been collecting those ever since.

as for the some dealer recommendations, the key is a friendly attitude with great customer service. I only encountered about a handful of dealers/store owners that had great attitudes and were very friendly. that can make a whole difference in my opinion.

In theory, but my girlfriend has a 'complete' collection of JFK's that
she acquired from circulation/roll hunting (1964's to 2001-D, only
the 1970-D and 1987-D were 'bought') and I don't.... Or maybe I
do have a 'complete' Clad collection in my JFK bags and I
haven't bothered to organize them yet! I did get all of the 1964-70
non-Proof Silver JFK varieties from circulation, including two 1970-D's,
back in the 1980's.
(a couple of my '65 to '67 JFK's may be SMS, you never know...).

And she is the one who stays focused on JFK's and Wheat Cents,
while I collect a bit of everything.

Two of my female co-workers are more casual collectors (State Quarters
for the kids/grandkids), but they know enough to save Silver coins,
Wheat Cents and the like!

I've dealt with several female collectors and coin shop employees,
and they have all been pleasant and knowledgeable!


, and I think that same sentiment at the car shows as well...
(To any single women looking for a guy, all I gotta say is 'buy a big
block muscle car', and you'll have so many guys after you, you won't
know what to do with them! )

I have collected coins since the 60's, can't say definitively what got me started, I may have been looking for a 1930 penny or a 1923 halfpenny, too long ago!

I come from a family of 12, 7 females, 5 males and of those I know for certain that there are 3 coin collectors, all females. If any of my remaining 3 brothers collect coins, I don't know about it, but then they're probably not aware that I collect either.

I have more than 160 nieces & nephews spanning the next 3 generations, and I only know of one female collector amongst those, but I hasten to add there are quite a lot of them I've never even met.

My friend, that is worth more silver than the Hunt's own.

This post caught my eye just having coffee
and in-between a sip & a gulp ...it's morning time here




which reminds me to update my personal info here

For the record, as my avatar three letter word, can go either way, I am a full red bloodied male whew!..

Ugly:

I don't know if its actually due to hardwiring (at least to the full extent). There is something called 'brain plasticity' in which the brain changes throughout development as the environment is altered, and I'd say men are raised to be a lot like you said they tend to be. I agree though that that tends to be a 'male' archetype. I don't think I fulfill that archetype very well though. I'm an extreme multi-tasker, which I guess makes finishing a specific collection difficult to do. Instead, I end up buying mountains of coins (I have quite a bit of spare cash) of many different US types. Though, I am finally getting close to completing my type set.

Every time this subject comes up it makes me look around at the next coin show. Since I go to from 2 to 4 coin shows a Month, I look around most of the time for the types of people there. Naturally the last one was on Mother's Day so possibly not a good representative type show. This show usually has about 80 to 100 dealers but this one had about 40 to 50 dealers. Usually all set up by 9AM but this one had dealers still seting up at 10AM. I was there from about 9 to 11AM. One female dealer but with her husband. Only one female customer all morning. Of course being Mother's Day may have made a little difference. I'll probably look around this weekend at the next show but I doubt any increase in female customers.
Just not what most girls or women are interested in.