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The thing that unnerves me about collecting things is that, when taken seriously, one does not collect for the value of the thing collected; things are valued because they are part of a collection. It has nothing to do with intrinsic worth, but simply that the thing adds to the owner's pile of stuff.
An individual item in a collection may not have much meaning on its own, but a complete collection (assuming the thing collected has a finite limit, like mk's coin collection) is representative of possibly decades worth of meticulous collecting. Very much like a puzzle piece, in fact, which is mostly worthless in any other context than a complete puzzle.