We first came to know about phone cards when I came abroad back in 1997 for a short while, and then in year 2002. At that time , mobiles were not very popular, and, there were many phone booths everywhere, from where we could call our friends and relatives.
These are prepaid telephone cards, used to access public telecommunication services by inserting them into compatible payphones.
The phone cards, in their varying designs, would come out regularly, and, occasionally we would have ‘jigsaw’ kind of cards, as depicted below.
Some of the cards are from UAE, some from China and around the world. If you see closely, they are like a jigsaw, each of 4(butterfly) or 6(tiger) cards and so on.
Since then, telephone cards have been deemed obsolete with mobile phones taking over, yet, they make a fascinating hobby, just like matchbox labels and the like. As time goes by, they will continue to get rarer.
Our Hobby Corner 
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