Poll - How long have you been collecting coins?

kennytpez · September 26, 2015 11:35PM

I have been collecting for 8 years, to be exact.

kaz · September 26, 2015 11:38PM

About 7 years, after I was delegated to selling my late father's coins. I quickly "progressed" to buying fake trade dollars and cleaned coins on eBay! (fortunately that phase didn't last too long, after I started reading and found sites like this one.)

TwoSides2aCoin · September 26, 2015 11:53PM

Everyone knows once you get out, you really were not "in". And once you get in, you really can't get out.

Nysoto · September 27, 2015 1:17AM

This is one of the more interesting polls, and the results should come as no surprise. I just turned 59, have been collecting for 53 years, and still have some of my Whitman albums for Lincoln cents, mercs, and buffalos. Coin collecting was extremely popular for all ages in the 1960's, as silver was phased out, many of these collectors were really hoarders who were making money from the silver still in circulation. Some turned into true collectors and numismatists that we see on this board.

The bigger question is what will happen to the hobby and prices once the large segment of boomers kicks the bucket?

metalmeister · September 27, 2015 2:19AM

Started in the early 60's. Re started in mid 1990's

Poll - How long have you been collecting coins?

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