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I miss the thrill and the rush of this group back in the post 2008 days. Guess I’m getting old. Those were exciting days. Feel like it’s comin’ round again. . .

slvrbck wrote:I miss the thrill and the rush of this group back in the post 2008 days. Guess I’m getting old. Those were exciting days. Feel like it’s comin’ round again. . .

As more times passes younglings of today seem to be fairly ignorant of coins and PMs. They gravitate towards digital electronic Blips.

Our little hobby seems to be more of a Boomer/GenX/millennial thing.

People lose interest, or they simply sell everything and move on. Age is a big factor too. 2008 was 17 years ago. A few members from back then are gone now (RIP).

I'm in my 50s, and learn all I can from you guys.

Gold and silver have been watched in my family for generations. I'm not moving over to anything with "bit" in it. I see U.S. freedoms fading daily, a very scary sight:(

There are a lot of reasons why things seem somber in the hobby we all love. The adventure of it has been diluted. Finding half dollar boxes or CWRs with a decent amount of silver is less often. Banks have removed, in my area, the half dollar accepting feature of the coin counters. TD bank might was the last resort but the Penny Arcade disappeared in 2016. Coming up with the money for CRHing was more difficult back in the day. I thought having $300 cash was ballin' to go into banks and get rolls. Now I see online regular CRH folk who buy many thousands of dollars of boxed coins to CRH. Which brings me to the other aspect of the latter years. With social media broadcasting CRHing online, now people who did not even think about CRHing have joined in and reduced the finds. I am concentrating on searching cent boxes more nowadays. I buy loose half dollars from teller trays when I can too or if they have any rolls of halves, expecting to find nothing but can spend the halves at the grocery store self checkout to get rid of them. If I could find a way of dumping hundreds, even thousands of dollars of halves w/o any fee, I'd be all over CRHing half dollar boxes again.

Springer, you are wise to search cent boxes WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! Do not stop. There is still plenty of stuff to be found. Young people will not provide competition because they are busy with their "digital electronic blips" as mentioned by Cu Penny Hoarder in another thread.

Silver4face wrote:Springer, you are wise to search cent boxes WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! Do not stop. There is still plenty of stuff to be found. Young people will not provide competition because they are busy with their "digital electronic blips" as mentioned by Cu Penny Hoarder in another thread.

Thanks. Listening to Clyde Lewis talk about the GENIUS act tonight. I think we will have some resurgence of bartering in the years to come. Looks like cash is going to be phased out and digital dollar is the goal.

Funny thing about all of this. The two or three camps all have persuasive positions. The gold people see the dollar being inflated or crashed, whichever is the most effective, and thus seek precious metals. The crypto bros think the dollar implosion means people will panic and run to crypto because it is a fixed amount of Bitcoin, etc. and have the greatest fungibility. The Boglehead crowd thinks nothing to see here, the US dollar is king and it will take a thousand China years to make the US dollar the equivalent of the Argentine peso. Bogleheads crap on gold and crap on crypto. I bring them up because they have a Pollyanna-like view of the capitalist market. If the US dollar goes all digital, the Bogleheads will say to lay back and enjoy it.