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Valued Member
Canada
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What do think the average age of a token
collector would be?
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 Canada
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The word "Token" casts a pretty big shadow, are you referring to anything in particular?
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Valued Member
Canada
414 Posts |
My estimates...
Pre-confederation tokens.....average age 35+
Municipal tokens/medals, provincial dollars etc....average age 15
Edited by SelectCoinCanada
01/27/2015 8:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I collect pre - confederation, municipal and good for tokens. I am 20.
In Carleton County, NB I am an outlier bringing the mean age down to about 40. The other 8 or so guys that collect tokens are much older, and they don't bother with municipal trade tokens.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in my 30's and I collect tokens. Mostly Idaho, Oregon, Alaska and California (in that order) good for tokens for the U.S. I have a slowly growing collection of Canadian Municipal Dollars and a growing collection of Maui Trade dollars. Also have some world tokens (Mexico, Ireland, Algeria, France) and some German Notgeld. Plus a couple of Siam Gaming tokens. There are many different types of tokens and I find most of them fascinating. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I would guess the older the collector the older the tokens.
colonial canada for me @ 45
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
I'm 27, collect mostly us and canadian transit tokens 1900-1960. I go a little later with the big cities.
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Valued Member
 Canada
496 Posts |
Sorry SPP ,I should have stated tokens listed by Breton , Bowman
or McColl... I did get surprising results. I would have guessed the
average age to be 60 plus. I like to see as young as 20. I am forty
and just wondering the future of token collecting. Dealers say they
are having trouble keeping stock.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I collect a good variety of tokens and medals. Ranging from Conder tokens (18th Century British) to St. George Provincial Canadian (1850s) to US Civil War Patriotics and Store Cards (1860s) through to USA So-called-dollars (up to 1960 or so).
Variety is the spice of life, and tokens certainly are some nice added variety beyond plugging holes in year-run sets of the same design.
I'm 35.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bought my first Civil War token back in the early 1960's and still have that one. It's an 1864 dated Lincoln piece that cost me $12.50. That was no small sum for a kid back then, being about a week's earnings on my paper route. I marveled that Abe had gotten to see his image on a then circulating "cent" of sorts. Over fifty years now, and I'm still at it ...
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