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You may have heard that people enjoy collecting things over the years. Collecting can be very fun, while stressful because of having to purchase extremely rare things before they sell out. This also might mean looking at different websites every 10 minutes to see if anything vintage is selling, or staying up until 4 a.m. just to get a certain collector's item.
Things people like to collect are:
Stamps
Coins
Bottle caps
Trading Cards
Mugs
Pens
Vinyl Records
Vintage toys
And many more things! Here is a brief description of each thing listed above:
Stamps:
Many people like to collect stamps. Not the type of stamps that you dip into ink, but the stamps that are used to ship letters.
Coins:
There are many vintage coins around the world that are no longer produced and that used to be very common, and now are extremely rare. An example of this is pennies, their production has recently stopped. Hold on to your pennies, because they may become REALLY rare in the next years!
Bottle caps:
Many bottle caps that people collect are soda bottle caps, usually made of steel. Soda brands’ bottles have evolved over time, and old versions of the bottles aren’t in production anymore.
Trading cards:
Trading cards are frequently collected, especially the rare ones. Pokèmon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards are the most popular trading cards, but there are other ones as well. Trading cards are frequently collected because many people have opened packs and managed to get rare ones.
Mugs:
Mugs are something not that popular to collect, which makes it even harder to find the rare mugs. A popular mug that gets collected is the classic Disney mugs, which are extremely difficult to find.
Pens:
Pens, like mugs, aren’t a very popular thing being collected, because they are so easy to find, but certain brands can become very rare, which is why people collect them.
Vinyl records:
Vinyl records are rare and collected because not many people have record players. Vintage singers used to all have records, but now only a couple of singers do this.
Vintage toys:
Vintage toys are pretty hard to find and usually from around the 1900s (hence the name vintage toys). A couple of examples of vintage toys are Care Bear plushies, figurines, etc.
Which ones are rare?
Stamps:
The rarest stamp in the world is the “British Guiana One-Cent Magenta,” which is also known as the “Magenta Lady”. There is only one of these in the entire world. Stanley Gibbons bought it in June 2021 for $8.3 million.
Coins:
The rarest coin is called the “1849 Double Eagle”. The Double Eagle is owned by the Smithsonian Institution. If you were to buy it, you would have to pay $20 million.
Bottle caps:
One of the rarest bottle caps in the world is the Sher-a-Coca bottle cap. It is so rare because of its limited production.
Trading cards:
The two rarest trading cards are the “1996 World Champion” card and the “Shichifukujin Dragon” card. They are both from the game “Magic: The Gathering”.
Mugs:
One of the rarest mug collections in the world is the “Fazer Moomin” mugs. They would be around €10,000 today, which would be around $11,184.
Pens:
The rarest pen in the world is the Fulgor Nocturnus by Tibaldi because it is made with black diamonds. It is worth about $8 million.
Vinyl Records:
The rarest vinyl record is Wu-Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin".Only one copy was ever made, and it is worth about $2 million.
Vintage Toys:
The rarest is the 1979 Star Wars Rocket Firing Boba Fett prototype. It is the rarest because it was released, but its sales were stopped shortly after because it could rocket-fire. If you were to buy a used one today, it would be in the range of $525,000 to $1,342,000.
Sources: Perplexity AI, Mearto, The Merge, Mukify Google