The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 21, May 19, 2002, Article 14

HOW MANY "SERIOUS" AMERICAN COLLECTORS?

  Granvyl Hulse writes: "In response to Dick Johnson's
  discussion of the market for new numismatic books,
  Denis Loring writes:

  "153,200 -- Unduplicated number of collectors who
         subscribe to the four largest numismatic publications.

    5,000 -- Estimated number of serious numismatists in
         America,  the core segment of numismatics.

  I find this disparity hard to believe.  I don't know the
  definition of  'serious' being used here, but I'll bet that
  with any reasonable definition of the word this number
  would be much higher."

   Just to help everyone: In Colebrook, New Hampshire,
  5 miles from the Canadian border, with a population of
  2,500 there are ten very serious collectors, so the rest
  of the United States only has 4,990."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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