Last week I referred to an 175 million estimate of the number of "coin collectors" in the United States. David Ganz quoted a 2002 press release saying that "United States Mint research shows that 139 million Americans are collecting the new quarters".

As for our readership survey, someone asked if we really had no readers in certain U.S. states. Well, all we can really say is that no one claiming to be from those states responded to our survey. It's only a subset of our readership. Since we have several confirmed responses claiming to be from California, we can be pretty sure of the minimum numbers there. But having no responses to report from a state isn't enough to indicate anything except that we likely have a low readership there.

Another twenty-some responses have come in this week. They don't change the overall numbers much, but we now do have confirmed readers in additional states such as Georgia.

Darryl Atchison writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:FIRST E-SYLUM READER SURVEY RESULTS(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n13a02.html)