Will Coins Go The Way Of Stamps?

Stamp collecting is very much alive, if not so well publicized.

Just like I love my coins, I still love my stamps, too!

I look for bulk older unused gummed stamp lots on ebay to add to my hoard and to use the excess for postage. Funny how you can sometimes buy older mint unused stamp issues at half (or less) of "face" value. Actually got about 500$+ in face 8, 10, 15, 20 and 25 cent stamps for less than 150$ a few months ago! I go thru the stuff, keep what I find interesting and then use the left overs for postage on packages/letters/cards that I send out. Helps take out a little bit of the sting caused by postal rate increases.

It's tough to buy coins for less than face value!

Phonecard collecting died out when the technology moved on and they stopped making and using phonecards.

Stamp collecting is dying out, because the technology has moved on and they no longer make and use stamps to anywhere near the extent they used to.

Coin collecting will die out, if/when the technology moves on and coins are no longer made and used as money. "Used as money" is already redundant in the United States, where the de facto highest face value coin (the quarter) has virtually no buying power, so is essentially useless as "money". Coins with higher face value exist elsewhere (Canada, the Eurozone, Britain, Australia, Japan, etc) but it is rare for new high-value circulating coins to be introduced now; coins are seen as obsolete technology, too inconvenient and (for high value coins) too easy to counterfeit.

This is all disregarding whatever push might be happening from the banks to abolish coins as a money-saving measure, and/or from governments as an anti-dark-economy measure.

Once it becomes virtually impossible to find a coin "in the wild", or to use a coin as money if you have one, then coin collecting will become the interest of a tiny eccentric minority with an interest in obsolete artifacts.

No

Agree with Sap.
Coin collecting will eventually become an eccentricity.
Hopefully not in my lifetime.

The slabbing, the marketing tactics, the investor interest, the get-rich-quick folks, etc. have all contributed to promoting negativity in this fine hobby, methinks; this, in some measure, mind you. Coin collecting has been around since the first coins came off the anvil. I don't see it ending. The problem is that it's become so aligned with gathering wealth in a now inflation-driven economy. Those who view coins as "product" or simple commodities will forever fall by the wayside. True collectors, those who enjoy and study coins, will remain. It's worked for me; and, for almost seven decades now.

Coin usage will make a big comeback if governments start abusing digital infrastructure. Not to mention the possibility of a network hack or a total network collapse by EMP.
For instance, people in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan went back to barter and coin usage when both countries shut down the entire internet to prevent dissent.