Coin collecting thing of past

[49er12]

Why I say that coins are produced in great numbers making them not rare, is it true government had something to do with ruining the hobby by making coins in plenty is it true. So the hobby is basically no more, educate us thanks

 

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[smokeythecat]

There should always be a market for rarieties, especially coins from the past. Some gold, silvers and special kind of errors will be wanted. The government didn't help much, that's for sure. However, the biggest problem is the younger generation doesn't coin collect as there is no way to plug the mini usb adapter to a coin to charge it.

 

[Mackaydon]

IMO, the youth of today is interested in 'instant gratification'; served up by the likes of "Fortnite" and other games. Coin collection is not an amusement for instant gratification so the coin collecting hobby will continue to quickly decrease in their numbers of participants; just as Stamp Collecting has already 'fallen off the edge'. Of course coin collecting will always remain, just as Stamp Collecting is now down to a stable bunch of 'hard core' collectors-like me.
Don..

 

[49er12]

Correct nothing in years is rare, stamps, baseball cards.the he’ll with the young generation they sold there soul to the devil with electronics, no turning back. They don’t no how to communicate besides show interest in historical terms. Pisses me off that human beings r there own worst enemy. But coins of years ago but who’s going to pay for them they aren’t. Anyway the government help put a end to it by producing to many. Oh gee another example of r ass hole government, can we feed them to the swamp. Ruin r dam hobbies

 

[BillA]

deferred gratification is unknown today
and it is the population numbers that drive us downwards (bits of crap for money)

Bill

 

[Discrimination Dave]

My son is a high school student. He has a coin collection. His main hobby is carnivorous plants (Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sun dews). He takes cuttings or pollinates them and re plants the seeds. He also works part time at a gas station after school and on weekends. He does have a smart phone and a computer though. I think writing off the entire generation is a little negative.
However, my children were removed from American society at a very young age so perhaps he could have turned out differently.

 

[mh9162013]

My son is a high school student. He has a coin collection. His main hobby is carnivorous plants (Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sun dews). He takes cuttings or pollinates them and re plants the seeds. He also works part time at a gas station after school and on weekends. He does have a smart phone and a computer though. I think writing off the entire generation is a little negative.
However, my children were removed from American society at a very young age so perhaps he could have turned out differently.

I don't think anyone here was trying to write off an entire generation, just making a generalization.

 

[mh9162013]

IMO, the youth of today is interested in 'instant gratification'; served up by the likes of "Fortnite" and other games. Coin collection is not an amusement for instant gratification so the coin collecting hobby will continue to quickly decrease in their numbers of participants; just as Stamp Collecting has already 'fallen off the edge'. Of course coin collecting will always remain, just as Stamp Collecting is now down to a stable bunch of 'hard core' collectors-like me.
Don..

What this guy said!

Although, I'd like to make it clear stamp collecting is dying off because stamps are now self-adhesive...just sayin'. That's why I stopped collecting them.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Just trust that they know what they’re doing. /s

 

[smokeythecat]

I remember once upon a time ago there were three stamp stores near me. No more.

 

[releventchair]

Why I say that coins are produced in great numbers making them not rare, is it true government had something to do with ruining the hobby by making coins in plenty is it true. So the hobby is basically no more, educate us thanks

The governments reason for establishing a specie was for a medium to use for transactions . Not to create a hobby of coin collecting.

All those coins my family sorted through in the sixties to locate less common wheats ,or particular date and mint silvers that did not seem common then are not more common today. Maybe seemingly available now on online sites or coin stores ,but they sure ain't any cheaper for the less common!

If you have every 1804 silver dollar class minted, 1,2,3,and the later electrotype copy , congrats! (Could I please touch the class 2 please?) My hat is off to you , and coin collecting must be getting boring...

Stuff exists somewhere for adding to most collections.
And if the U.S. lacks any rare enough coins ,foreign coins exist too...

 

[Johnnybravo300]

My son is a stacker and hes 30. Hes always been a penny pincher and done well at figuring out ways to make a buck.
My daughter is 25 and she has a few silver coins, some nuggets and gold that weve dug together at my claim and elsewhere.
Shes much more likely to want to go digging and camping with me but my son wants to go to coin shops and hes never been with me to dig gold like she has, so she has her own vial with a gram for so now. He has the gold hes bought.
Both of them understand money to a certain point but at different levels but they know what they need to know. Now it's their job to educate themselves further and that's another skill some kids dont have.
If you have kids it's your job to teach them. For every kid that is an idiot there's a few parents to blame and most parents dont even really know so hard to blame them either, not that placing blame would help anything.

I dont understand what it means that the government has minted too many coins? How many exist today and how many are gone since the Great Melts? No one knows, so dont count on a key date to be a rarity if the commons were melted down.
The common dates ARE the new key dates now some experts might say!