Over the years, much of the demand for Imperial German coins—and hence their price support—has come from the U.S. But I think that is less true than it was.Hermes hat geschrieben:...Was mich umtreibt ist mein Sammelgebiet "Kaiserreich 1871-1918". Ganz und gar kein ungewöhnliches Gebiet, aber wird das auch in Zukunft so bleiben?
Hin und wieder lese ich über das demografische Problem, das dieses Gebiet angeblich hat, nach dem Motto "Nur alte Männer sammeln alte Münzen, die Jugend sammelt 10er-Euros". Und alte Männer sterben irgendwann aus...
Most of the older American interest in Imperial German coins has already departed (the U.S. lost its last WWI veteran just recently, and WWII vets are dying at something like 2,000 each day).
A solid interest in Imperial German coins developed among the American generation of the immediate (and even the more protracted) postwar, but those collectors too are giving way. So Imperial German coins seem somewhat less in fashion in the U.S. today than they were once.
I do expect a healthy spike in interest in all things German to develop as part of the WWI centennial of 2014-2018 and the inevitable reexamination of where things went wrong afterward. Where collecting Imperial German coins is concerned, however, I expect it to be a somewhat faddish and temporary interest, because will be unsupported by the sort of intense personal experience that sparked much of the earlier American interest in German Imperial coinage (including the very numerous immigrants for whom their former German home was still an honorable memory.)
And what of U.S. demand for Imperial German coinage after 2020? I think it very much depends on what sort of hold Germany is able to exert on either the American imagination, or American affections, or both.
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