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A telephone card, calling card or phone card
for short, is a small card, usually resembling a credit card,
used to pay for telephone services. Such cards can either employ
prepaid credit system or credit card style system of credit.
People collect phone cards for a variety of reasons, but the
majority collect them for the same reasons others might collect
stamps, coins, and sports trading cards.
Collecting phone cards has perhaps been the fastest growing
hobby over the last ten years. There are thought to be between
two and four million phone cards collectors in the world today
and, in some countries,are as widely collected as stamps.
A card's value is determined by its
rarity, the type of technology it uses and
its appearance. Cards can feature anything
from original artwork to reproductions of
postage stamps to a photo.Telecom companies have also taken advantage of phone cards to
place advertising on them, or to feature celebrity portraits,
artwork, or attractive photography to increase the appeal of the
cards to consumers leading some people to start collecting phone
cards as a hobby. The hobby is called "fusilately" in the UK and "telegery"
in.USA Phonecards have been collected worldwide
since the mid 1970's and peaked in the mid 1990s.
Some people are interested in Corporate names and promotions.
What about
animals, or Star Trek, or Marilyn Monroe, McDonald's, or Elvis?
Sometimes collectors become speculators and buy merchandise for
"investment". Cards can go up in value, but they can
also go down in value.
Due to the dearth, until recently, of
telephone-card collectors in the United
States, many of the early American cards are
now in Germany. With some hundred thousand
collectors Germany is the market in the
world..
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