https://www.coinnews.net/2011/03/10/new-book-available-coin-collecting-for-the-next-generation/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.coinnews.net/2011/03/10/new-book-available-coin-collecting-for-the-next-generation/#comment-32296 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:28:10 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=11491#comment-32296 I agree in principle however things like the state quarter series had tons of kids collecting. The issue then because does coin collecting become the next comic book collecting. Based on older and rare comic book prices collectors thought they had value with some special edition comic…until they tried to sell them only to discover they were worthless as everybody already had one. It took years for the comic book industry to recover. I think most people collected for fun but…

]]> https://www.coinnews.net/2011/03/10/new-book-available-coin-collecting-for-the-next-generation/#comment-32293 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:24:54 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=11491#comment-32293 Yeah, good luck with that. Thanks to decades of design stagnation and profligate mintages, there’s really nothing worthwhile to find in change to pique a new numismatist’s interest. Even the relative rarity of the 2009 mintages, while potentially making roll searching fun, will never be valuable thanks to readily available supplies from mint sets. I hope it’s better for them than my grim assessment, I really do.

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