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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3417686, member: 19463&quot;]You can say the same thing about coins.&nbsp; Were they to wise up about pretending there is a use for cents and nickels other than sales taxes and that sales taxes need to be collected from the buyer rather than the seller, we could stop making them now.&nbsp; Few people collect coins that ever served at face value but prefer special issues or even special types including things that were once circulating coins but no longer serve in that capacity (denarii, pre-1933 gold, large cents).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are US stamps that have been demonetized and could no longer be stuck, legally, to envelopes to pay postage if someone were stupid enough to do so. Pre Civil War stamps were made worthless to prevent funding the Confederacy with the stocks of US stamps in all those southern post offices.&nbsp; The largest were 90 cents and that was a lot of money in 1861. Today they go for over $1k.</p><p><img src="http://values.hobbizine.com/stamps/pics/0039.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I used to collect old stamps (used only) but all were pre-1961. My favorites were on envelopes. I had a hard time deciding between hobbies but coins won.</p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o9/88/582688/1/164286107.FH2qyllU.shipletter1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yes, as a matter of fact, I collected stamps just like I do coins favoring the hot messes.&nbsp; I had no mint state, full gum receipts for services not rendered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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