[reaperducer]

A couple of months ago I was cleaning out a closet and I found my old stamp collection from when I was a kid. It was fun to look through and see so many stamps from nations that no longer exist.

I looked on some auction sites, and it seems like you can buy the collections of the recently deceased at pretty cheap prices. I don't know if they're worth the money, but if you're just collecting for fun, and not for profit, it seems like a good way to beef up your collection.

[gbhn]

A local coin/stamp person was completely uninterested in my old stamps from like 35 years ago. I think the shrinking number of collectors is outstripping the number of collections getting thrown out, and the whole idea of collecting stamps is just fading away.

[anonymous5133]

Yup it is exactly that. The big problem, in contrast with precious metals, is that stamps have basically no intrinsic value. They're just pieces of paper. At least with precious metals, the coins can be melted down to create high technology.

[turtlecloud]

Cryptocurrency will take its place :) Millennials will flock to alt coins just as the old people went into stamps

[skookumchuck]

Stamps from after WW2 never had any value.