Collecting Dieing?

Hi Dustin ,, I think there will always be coin collectors ,,many young folks start collecting and then as life ,school all levels,family and work start they prioritise and return to it later in life when things slow down a little and more time and money become available .

and there are those who collect throughout their life ,,like myself started at 12 and have never really stopped ,, even at the height of my family life I still found time and a few dollars to add to my collection from time to time .

I have 1 youngster and one adult who I mentor and help with their collections ,,some of that help is teaching them how to save and spend their money as well as teaching them the finer points of building a collection to make sure that their collections do not stagnate ,, one of the worst things that can happen to a young/new collector is for their collections to abruptly stop ,, that is where they usually lose interest .

By the way I'm always interested in adding another young collector to my help list ,, even if its only by email .

Metalman

PS I also supply several dozen packets of coins to students at the local grade and intermediate school 6th and 7th grades ,,Im hoping to spark a few YN's with this program and perhaps even start a coin club at this age level in the school .

Funny thing about being a grown up. Your pay check will grow substantially when you get older allowing you to have greater disposable income. These extra $$ will allow you to re-visit things you thought interesting as a kid but never checked out. So in a sense you'll be a kid again

Lot's of folks in their 30's, 40's, 50's & even 60's are just starting out collecting.

Hi Dustin,

Well, I born after 1978 too... so at least we have a few collectors in this CCF..... I have similar concern/wondering about this subject too.

But I also agree that the Washington quarters and Presidential dollars will spark interests in people (mostly Washington quarters, because more of them see in circulation).

I am thinking of ways to park coin collecting interests in my Boy Scout troop too. Like Metalman approach, if each of us can teach/recruit/mentoring a few new young collectors then that's an exponential growth to the hobby. We should all follow Metalman approach.

Metalman, Thank you for your offer. It's one of the reason why I am here and remain active - because of such people like you and others great members in here. I'll be asking for your help when things arise.

That's what I plan to do with my collection. I'd love to get my future kids interested in coin collecting. I've been facinated ever since I was about 3 or so. So that's been about 15 years now. But I just got serious the last 5 years or so.

Curiosity, spare time and a propensity toward introversion rather than extroversion, IMO, are the biggest things that make up a coin collector. Lots of money is not necessary to collect coins. Time to find out what your coins mean, what they are about is necessary. Curiosity to that at all is necessary. No one, however, needs any of this if all they want to do is piling up "stuff" and lose interest in a year or two.

Time is a trade off. The time you use to study your collection, to understand what it means to you comes at the expense of something else. You can't hardly be an extrovert shot-gunning suds and barking at a bikini contest and still be at home with a glass and album. At least not until we have a Quantum Entanglement Czar.

This is probably why it is older people who tend to collect coins. Even younger family types who do stay home and have a pretty tame life also have families to take care and "honey do" lists to tend to.

There has always been and always will be a certain *small* number of younger folks who don't "fit in" or simply reject altogether, the social dog and pony show that their peers are busy wasting their lives on. For those few: "We'll keep the lights on for ya."

The way I see it is the same thing will happen to coins that happened to Stamps, Beanie Babies, Hot Wheel cars, Baseball and Football Cards, etc. Even now the Mint is flooding the market with some coins that will be the end of collecting as a really big thing as it is now. The State Quarters was a real boom to collecting but now with the stupid baby sized dollars that no one wants, several types of them, tons of commemoratives, multiple varieties of Proof Sets, Gold Coins, Silver Coins, Platinum Coins and on and on and on. The Mint will run this into the ground as they did with stamp collecting. I remember so many friends that collected Stamps but then the constant release of so many just ran it into the ground. My son started on Baseball and Football cards but when he saw them being sold by the box of 5,000 for $5, he just gave up. I remember when Beanie Babies were in every store, shopping mall, flea market and everywhere you looked. Then too the market got flooded with way to many and crash, now selling for about $1 or $2 each. Hot Wheel and Matchbox cars used to be everywhere and some for hundreds of dollars. Same thing. Way to many so not to many except at Walmart for a toy and for $0.74 each and less during a sale.
Coin collecting will always be here but out Mint will flood the market and oh so many kids will say, nuts, just to many. Back to my computer games.

eh I admit I'm a weirdo many can back this up. every monday I go to the bank and get 25$ in pennies and look through em. I'm not into the newer lifestyle I own no cell phone,ipod, no so called cool clothes and dont listen to newer music unless its rock but not the screaming stuff. I do not like kids/ teens of my age they all worrie about being cool and all I worrie about is coins and my gf. I hate to see this upcoming generation when technology goes to the ground and they have to rub two sticks together.

dustin