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by gbhn 2631 days ago
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.
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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.
Cryptocurrency will take its place :) Millennials will flock to alt coins just as the old people went into stamps
Stamps from after WW2 never had any value.