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Collecting Phone Cards
Collecting phone cards, calling cards or, as they are often called, telecards is America's fastest growing hobby after collecting Pokemon cards. Although phonecards as a consumer commodity are only about 25 years old they come in a mutiplicity of forms and like stamp collecting they are printable. The very fact that a phone card can have anything printed on it makes it collectable. Add to this the fact that cards are mostly printed in limited runs. This results in scarcities of each card as there are a finite number of that particular run. Here are some of the features that a phone card collector would look for:
Phone card collecting is an exact science and with it comes all the equipment. Collecting equipment includes thingd like albums, phone card catalogues, special lighting, ante static mats and calling card cleaning equipment. Exactly like Pokemon cards,coin and stamp collecting there are collectors all around the globe who trade, swap and sell telecards.You can buy individual rare phonecards or you can bulk buy a job lot of cards from a particular country. |