As We Move To A Cashless Society

WOW! last post says it all. True coin collecting will slowly fade sort of like most present day hobbies. Remember Beanie Babies, How Wheel cars, Sporting cards, etc. Most were ruined by manufacturers over doing them. Now our Mint too is over doing coins with massive quantities of just things. I stopped several years ago collecting Proofs and Mint sets as sets. I get some just to have complete Albums but never to save those worthless sets. Commems are way to numerous and of little value. The Mint is ruining the hobby and the soon enough no more cash too isn't helping.

I am not sure. I was exposed to coins long before I was to commerce. Sure, the latter helped me build my early collection, but I get on fine without it now. I have certainly not lost interest as I have become 99% cashless.

After all, people still collect art from people who are long dead and no longer making new pieces.

Interesting to speculate, but only time will tell.

School teaches art history, so that would last, even if today most kids aren't interested, unless school don't offer art history.

Coin collecting is a hobby, and as mentioned, it will fade over time, not sure how long.

Sure, the percentage of the population will drop, but as long as the total number of collectors remains the same there will be enough coins for all of us.

True. But there will still enough coins, especially the modern issues.

I began collecting coins in about 1974 when my dad would take me to a LCS and I'd pick out Lincoln's that were displayed on these rotating shelves. I was just fascinated by them. They weren't overly expensive but in 1974 there were no video games, electronics, no phones, nothing. Both coin and stamp collecting were a big deal. In fact, the place we use to go was on Beach Blvd in Westminster, So Cal. There was also a gem/rock store next door that was also popular. Have to say, that after about 1980, the hobby has been in decline ever since. Sure, I got my kids involved at a young age but once exposed to phones, social media, gaming, etc, coins just don't maintain the same appeal.

Bottom line....coins and change in general is just a nuisance to most of the public nowadays. There was a time when I thought there would always be a place for coinage, today as we move towards that cashless society, I think many will just welcome the disappearance of change altogether.

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I used to, as a kid and still, sometimes be excited to dream that maybe someone famous from the past may have held the very coin that was in my hand. The history to be proud of made owning an actual piece of that history all the more important/cool/amazing to have.

However, I also agree with basebal in that these same millenials are the ones not yet at the main hobby phase of life but have family etc. responsibilities as current priorities. It may very well be in the future they will, as they get older, find the need as most people do to connect to the past and coins might be the way they do it.