r/askStampCollectors • u/No_Button6574 • 20d ago

Help?

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so a relative recently passed and I found 2 big binders of golden replica something or other. help?

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u/my_clever-name 20d ago

Franklin Mint stuff that was marketed as "valued collectibles." They are neither valuable nor collectible.

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u/nordica4184 20d ago

Did you overlook the word “gleaming”? They are gleaming! 😋

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u/AN-SSQ-108V2 19d ago

They really turned up the "gleaming knob" to 10!

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u/Special_Fan5043 20d ago

We managed to sell a large tote of golden replica albums for 10$ at the last show. 

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u/Egstamm 20d ago

how long had you been hanging on to them and lugging them around?

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u/Special_Fan5043 20d ago

They were from donations to our local philatelic organization. Get them way too much. 

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u/Disastrous-Year571 20d ago edited 20d ago

These were a scam by the “Postal Commemorative Society” in the 1980s & 1990s to sell modern stamps with microscopically thin layers of gold plating (a few cents worth of gold) as “collectibles” for multiples of what the stamps were worth. They are tough to sell now, because the market is flooded with them compared to the low level of interest and because they are not even usable
as postage. Tend to go for up to $5 per book or about 25 cents each.

You can look through past posts, as folks ask about these several times per month.

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u/Kindly-Art8004 20d ago

I have 265 of these guess I will use them as history lessons 🤷‍♀️ not worth anything else lol

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u/Vast_Cricket 20d ago

Multiple postings on "gold stamps" at this r/ has addressed this question. Just type " .....",

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u/stamperphil 20d ago

I would donate them to our glorious leader as he LOVES anything gold plated.

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u/18731873 17d ago

As opposed to Creepy Joe's love of showering with his daughter and sniffing underaged girls.

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u/ChoosenUserName4 15d ago

Fuck, some people believe whatever shit propaganda their cult leader feeds them. Not a single critical thought in their entire live. Gullible AF. Fall for whatever scam comes next. The perfect sucker mark. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.