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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Richard M. Aztlan, post: 2070070, member: 73477&quot;]If one collects simply for an implied or perception of current value, you are correct. However, many people, myself included collect for a historical value, and at times that may adds a monetary value. Many years ago I began to collect currency and coins from the Nazi Concentration Camps. At that time there was no internet, so my collecting at times involved international correspondence. At the time my goal was to preserve tangible historical items related to that horror. Now, these items are valuable, and worth much more than what I paid for them, or their face value. When I had the items certified, I was advised that there are only 14 of one of my coins in the entire world. So viewing collecting from the historical perspective adds an entirely different perspective, because in that regard, collectors are historians preserving the past, which would be lost if it was only seen for monetary value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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