They told me on TeeVee that there are 150 million coin collectors in the country....

ambro51

Uh Huh.


I personally only know only one other person who is somewhat of a 'coin collector'.


I thought you were supposed to believe eveything you read or see on the Tee Vee. Am I being misled here??????

mercurynut

I bet they are counting everyone who keeps a change jar or saved of few of their state quarters.

tjkillian

If there were 150 million collectors, nearly every other person would be one and it would not be difficult at all to find another collector to shoot the breeze with about coins.

I would be surprised if there were more than 20,000 collectors in the whole country.

MillerJW

I guess 150 million people might use coins, but that would not constitute a collector. Otherwise i would be a debit card collector too..

renman95

It's all lies. Maybe 150 collectors is more like it.

Ren

pmac

It's obvious that the count was generated by those who collected the statehood quarters. The presidential dollars haven't done quite as well because there are none to be picked up in change.

PerryHall

<< <i>I would be surprised if there were more than 20,000 collectors in the whole country. >>



Judging from the circulation numbers of the coin rags, the annual sales of proof or mint sets, the membership numbers of the ANA, etc,I'd guess it's closer to 100,000.

Halfhunter06

they are talking about the state quarters program here

sinin1

my parents and nieces and nephews collect the state quarters from circulation

must be millions of people that do that


probably not many collectors on the boards here that do that

19Lyds

These would be casual "cookie jar" collectors and not "serious" coin collectors.

CertifiedGoldCoins

Serious collectors that own valuable collections often prefer anonymity. They're the ones that count, not accumulators of loose change.

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Bayard1908

<< <i>I thought you were supposed to believe eveything you read or see on the Tee Vee. >>



I haven't heard anyone say that in over 30 years. It scared me then because people genuinely believed it.

percyb

If the stat is correct, that's 50% of the population. I saw three or four people at the local B+M shop recently. Two of them worked there.

lcoopie

If you collect coins in your pocket, pocket book, ashtray, nightstand, etc,
you are a collector

Not too many people throw coins away.

TwoSides2aCoin

The first time I heard my mom call it a "boob-tube" was in 1964. I was 9 years old. We've gone from vaccuum tubes to solid state to digital and no matter what the technology does, it's still a boob-tube.

Step away from it

farthing

I know quite a few people that are collecting state quarters and have never collected any other coins. I also know some that have been buying mint set for years or ASEs but collect nothing else.

I know of only one other person in my circle of friends and co-workers that have bought coins from a dealer, or ever attended a show.

Most people only see the tip of the iceburg and assume that is all there is.

BillyKingsley

If TV said it, it MUST be true!

coinkat

150M? Okay... that number just does not pass the straight face test