How many SERIOUS collectors have been created by the State Quarters?

291fifth

This is a question directed mostly to the dealers on the forum. Just how many SERIOUS new collectors have emtered the hobby as a result of the State Quarters issuance?

JrGMan2004

I'm a SERIOUS collector that was created by CoinVault, and brought up by these forums... is that close enough?

xbob

Although I had hand me down family coins and a cent album since childhood, I got serious about collecting during the SHQ program (last year). But I would say that the Nat'l Geographic show about the S.S. Republic sparked my interest in graded & slabbed coins. It was the first time I'd seen such a thing.

A little research turned into a lot of reading and fascination about the hobby.

nwcs

It is largely what drew me back into collecting.

LanLord

None, they were all created by GOD, state quaters just made them interested in coins.

CalGold

I am not a dealer but I will guess 153.

I'd like to check back later to see if I am correct. When will you be posting the actual number?

CG

INXS

<< <i>It is largely what drew me back into collecting. >>



I was out of collecting for a while and came back when the SQ program begun.

michael

10,000 to 40,000

MikeInFL

Ask again in 15 or 20 years -- my guess they are mostly still young...Mike

Russ

None. If one collects state quarters they couldn't possibly be a "serious" collector. To be a "serious" collector one must only collect "classics". Anybody who doesn't collect only "classics" is just an idiot wasting their money.

Russ, NCNE

anoldgoat

<< <i>It is largely what drew me back into collecting. >>



The SHQ program brought me back in 2000 but I just started collectiong quarters this year. Busted all my mint and proof sets from 2000 on.

golddustin

Like most of the collectors here, I started collecting as a child, and had been drifting in & out of collecting throughout my early adult years. I would get really serious about one series or another for a few years, only to completely lose interest for a similar amount of time, until something or other resparked my interest. However, I can definitely say that it was the statehood quarters that have once again lit the collecting fire, and led me not only to this forum, but also to starting on a US standard silver 50 cent pattern collection......and that's a long way to go! (at least now I can afford it a little bit more, if I restrain myself...)

lathmach

"Crazy as a Coin Collector", doesn't just apply to collectors of the classics.

Ray

mgoodm3

Hey, we're up to six now.

michael

the only idiots wasteing money on coins are the ones buying coins they can get for a few dollars raw by the hundreds of not thousands that they are paying 10x 20x 50x 100x and more slabbed with gaga grades on the holders

cladking

All of them.

Well, OK, not yet but in twenty years the vast majority of collectors will have started
with states quarters or the new nickels or perhaps other new coins which will be in-
troduced over the next few years. It's not just the oldimers who'll be retiring over the
next couple decades but also most of the returning collectors.

A few people will spend more time with their hobbies when they retire but most will
greatly curtail their spending and do other things. Thebaby boomers will be one of
the wealthiest generations ever and are likely to live well into their '80's but the forces
will be mostly the same,merely delayed.