monetary worth

People started viewing sports cards as valuable collectibles in the 1980s, despite their low monetary worth years earlier.

In simplest terms, a security is a financial instrument with some sort of monetary worth: a stock, a bond, an option.

Mr Donkin said the "heritage" value of the coins should be considered as well as their monetary worth.

That money was the accumulated value of holiday and birthday gifts not given, the monetary worth of the things that never wound up in the basket of old toys, the pile of under- and unappreciated “shows of love” or stuff that broke or was played out on a journey that ended at the town dump.

Rows upon rows of boxes are filled with collectors’ items — including some with relatively little monetary worth but that represent sentimental value for their owners or that could someday be worth much more.