The word "collectible" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an object that is considered valuable for its age or rarity, and is sought after by collectors. For example, "The second-hand book store specializes in collectible first editions of classic novels."
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.
Aon, a giant insurance broker, had to move a $90m reinsurance collectible that it feared it would not collect back into last year's results.
Hence, while paper money and other types of notes are collectible, the history of that form of collecting is distinct from coins and largely a modern phenomenon.
Former Prime Minister Taro Aso is an enthusiastic manga-collecting otaku, the TV ad breaks heave with glossy commercials for collectible card games, and multi-storey games arcades are commonplace.
Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
One, just ignore all beauty advertising – I tell myself that, like adverts for cars or those collectible plates that you find in the back of Sunday colour supplements, these just don't apply to me.
Here's a question they don't often ask in polls: what has the Human Rights Act ever done to you? Victims of the Human Rights Act are pretty hard to come by, while myths about outrages perpetrated in its name are so widespread as to be collectible.
De la Renta's clothes are for a world well used to phrases such as "hand-embroidered" and "rare collectible jewel encrusted".
If you buy a copy of a News Corp Sunday tabloid your newspaper is more than likely to come with a free paper animal collectible, a Mills & Boon iBook or a Sony Music download.
The third reason might just encourage the philatelists of the world to go and have a good rummage through their albums: the growing number of rich people in the world, due particularly to China's turbo-charged economic rise, has increased the premium for collectible items.
The company has already decided to celebrate the demise of the penny by flogging 20,000 "special rolls" of the last million pennies produced as a "unique collectible".
