Collecting as a hobby. What do people collect?

Collecting is a kind of people's activity, recognized among the hobbies most popular in the world. What do people collect? Everything - from traffic jams and similar trinkets to expensive cars.

Collection - an orderly collection of things that are united by common feature.
Collecting is a widespread, interesting and often expensive hobby.

What do people collect?

What does not collect true collectors: stamps, coins, toys, souvenir magnets, postcards, weapons, watches, dolls, mugs, books, candy wrappers, sea shells, books, maps, flags, etc.

More wealthy people collect paintings, weapons, rare books, cigarettes, icons and wines. On this kind of hobby, considerable sums of money are expended. The cost of some collectible exhibits reaches up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Some people collect even cars, airplanes and ships. For those who want to do this, there are great opportunities. You can collect items and it's easier, and cheaper, but the occupation will not lose from this originality.

It is amazing amazing imagination of people when you find out what people collect. Many people collect incredible things. It turns out that there are collectors of bricks, just bottles and chemist's bottles, cameras and autographs of celebrities.

What do collectors call different subjects?

Collectors of certain items are called differently. People who collect labels from matches are called phyllumenists, and collectors of postcards are called philokartists. Humophilia - collecting candy wrappers from chewing gums. Planologists - collectors of dolls. Hepatophiles collect wrappers from ice cream, and vromologists - labels from cheese. Collectors of magnets are called memomagnets. Bonistics is collecting money in the form of paper signs, faleristics - awards. Psaligraphophilists collect clippings from newspapers, conchiofilists - sea shells.

And what do people-lepidoptero-philologists collect? Butterflies. There are many such unusual names. Everything can not be enumerated.

Numismatics

A person collecting coins is called a numismatist. The word "numismatics" comes from the Latin numisma - a coin. Collecting coins began to be engaged in the 14th century. And as one of the fields of science, numismatics arose in the 18th century.

In Russia, Peter I initiated the collection of coins. He bought (in 1721) in Hamburg for the Kunstkammer a collection of coins of Moders.

Now the collection of the Russian State Hermitage has 63 360 antique, 360 000 West-European, 220 000 eastern and 300 000 Russian coins. Their age is equal to the period from the 7th century BC to today.

Of the most famous ancient world collections of coins, the largest was found in China. The total mass is about 500 kilograms. The oldest of these coins was minted in 206 BC. Its owner was a man who lived in the XIII century.

Philatelistics

A person collecting stamps is a philatelist. Philately as a field of collecting appeared in the 1840s. At that time in circulation have introduced postage stamps (1840).

In Russia, the emergence of philately is associated with the release of the first brands in Russia (1858) and envelopes (1845). In the XIX century, a 6-penny mark for envelopes of the eastern correspondence (1863) was estimated by collectors as 100, and 5-penny for the envelope of the Moscow Post (1846) - 1,000 DM.

Today, there are many regional philatelic organizations with their own sites.

Philatelistics with numismatics are the most popular types of collectibles.

Ideas about collecting can be a huge amount. Collecting will not lose its relevance ever, and, conversely, will be replenished with the latest original ideas.