The largest collector Home fair in Central
and Eastern Europe
September 4 to 5, 2026, Fairground PVA EXPO PRAHA
Opening hours: Fri 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Sat 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
For specialist buyers already on Thursday 3rd from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on Friday 4th from 9 a.m.
Register and get a free ticket to the Autumn Sberatel Fair (5 – 6 September 2025, PVA Expo Prague), Christmas Sberatel Fair (21 – 22 November 2025, Hotel Olympik****Prague) and Spring Sberatel Fair (20 – 21 March 2026, Hotel Olympik****Prague).
Two weeks before the start of each event, you will receive a voucher for a free ticket.
Registration is free and can be cancelled at any time. We will keep you informed about the news and attractions that await you at the Sberatel fairs throughout the year in the form of an e-mail newsletter. And as an additional gift to your free ticket, you will receive a special collector’s pocket calendar!
The largest gathering of collectors in Central and Eastern Europe will take place again this year on September 4-5 2026 at the PVA Expo Letňany fairground.
More than 250 exhibitors from around the world will offer postage stamps, coins, medals, banknotes, postcards, old shares, autographs and many other collectables. Many of them will be visiting Prague for the first time. Visitors can also look forward to an interesting programme of accompanying events.
This year, the Sběratel fair will once again be joined on both days by the Minerals and Gemstones Fair. On Saturday, 5 September, visitors can also attend the Vinyl and Stereo Expo, a market for vinyl records and CDs.
And there is more! On Saturday, 5 September, the new All Cards Arena fair will take place for the first time. It will focus on TCG cards such as Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, as well as collectable sports cards.
Do not miss the special exhibition “Treasures of World Philately III”, which will take place at the Municipal House in Prague from 29 August to 6 September, at the same time as the Sběratel fair. Visitors will see unique philatelic items with a total value approaching CZK 1 billion.
The main attraction will be the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta. With an estimated value of more than CZK 250 million, it is the most expensive postage stamp in the world.
It will be displayed together with the famous American Inverted Jenny, which shows an aeroplane printed upside down and is worth around CZK 45 million, and the Penny Black, the world’s first postage stamp.
During the year you can also visit the Spring Sberatel Fair or the Christmas Sberatel Fair and follow what’s happening in the world of collecting on collectornews.info.
Hurvínek, the legendary Czech puppet character, is celebrating his remarkable 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, he appeared on gold coins that sold out almost immediately. However, the celebrations do not end there.
The Czech Mint has also prepared sets of circulation coins for fans of the “wooden troublemaker”. Sales of the collections will begin directly at the fair. Each set contains six Czech circulation coins dated 2026 and a coloured commemorative token. Only 2,000 sets will be issued.
Hurvínek will personally present this new numismatic product together with his father, Mr Spejbl. You can meet them on Friday, 4 September, at 1:00 pm on the stage in front of the Czech Post stand. Afterwards, they will visit the Czech Mint stand.
At the stand, you will be able to buy not only the coin set but also special postage stamps created through cooperation between the Czech Mint, Czech Post and the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre.
The booklet contains eight stamps and will be issued in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hurvínek himself will sign 300 of them.
Pilot Martin Šonka is a living legend of Czech aviation. The Czech Mint is honouring him with a silver commemorative medal, which will go on sale directly at the fair.
Only 500 medals will be issued. Each medal weighs 29 grams, has its individual number engraved on the edge and comes in special themed packaging.
Martin Šonka will personally present the medal on Saturday, 5 September, at 10:30 am on the stage in front of the Czech Post stand. At 11:00 am, he will hold an autograph session at the Czech Mint stand.
From Friday, Czech Post will also sell a special stamp postcard dedicated to Martin Šonka. The card is part of the “Legends” series, which the Sběratel fair regularly prepares together with Czech Post for its autumn event.
On Saturday, 5 September, Letňany Airport Day will take place at the airport next to the PVA Expo Prague exhibition centre.
Visitors will be able to see dozens of aircraft of different types and ages. Admission is free and there will also be a wide accompanying programme. A special “airmail” service will connect the airport event with the Sběratel fair.
Place a stamped postcard or letter in the special blue airmail postbox and it will receive a Czech Post commemorative postmark issued for the Sběratel fair, together with a special airmail cachet.
The collection box will be located at the Sberatelshop.cz stand. Items can be posted from 10:00 am on Friday, 4 September, until 2:00 pm on Saturday, 5 September.
At the Sberatelshop.cz stand, visitors will also be able to buy a collectable sheet of nine stamps with a personalised coupon. It has been issued by the Sběratel fair in cooperation with Czech Post.
The coupon shows the historic L-200 Morava aircraft that will carry the mail. A postcard and individual stamps with the coupon will also be available.
At 2:00 pm on Saturday, all the collected items will be transported to Letňany Airport and loaded onto the aircraft. The aircraft will then take off for a special circular flight.
The aircraft carrying the airmail from the Sběratel fair has a unique history. It is one of two aircraft that took part in the North Pole Expedition 2008.
The two Morava aircraft departed from Prague and travelled across northern Europe towards the Arctic Circle. Their crews had to deal with extreme cold, ice, technical problems and long flights over an inhospitable landscape.
During one stage, the aircraft travelled more than 1,000 kilometres above the frozen ocean without any safe place for an emergency landing.
Despite these conditions, the Morava aircraft completed the expedition and returned to Prague after nine days. They covered approximately 10,000 kilometres and demonstrated the remarkable durability of a design that was already half a century old.
A new Czech Post stamp sheet with coupons for personalised printing, entitled “Prague Motifs”, will have its major premiere at this year’s Sběratel fair.
The Sběratel fair is the first commercial customer to use the new sheet. Its coupons feature designs by artist Roman Sedlák, who also created the overall design of the new stamp sheet.
Roman Sedlák will present Prague Motifs on Friday, 4 September, on the stage in front of the Czech Post stand. Visitors will also have an opportunity to obtain his signature.
The stamp sheet and a postcard with the same design will be available at the Sberatelshop.cz stand.
Did you know that when the Sběratel fair began in 1998, telephone cards were its second-largest collecting category after philately?
An exhibition marking 35 years since the issue of the first telephone card in Czechoslovakia has been prepared in cooperation with the Telephone Card Collectors’ Club.
Czech Post has also issued a special collectable stamp postcard for the event. It features a cartoon by Czech illustrator Václav Hradecký, originally created for the very first catalogue of the Sběratel fair.
The era of public telephones using prepaid cards began in Czechoslovakia on 14 May 1991. On that day, the first card-operated telephone supplied by the French company Schlumberger Industries was installed in Olšanská Street in Prague.
One day later, a second telephone was put into operation at the Prague Exhibition Grounds. The first Czechoslovak telephone card also went on sale there.
The card was issued in a limited edition of 10,000 copies, offered 150 units of credit and promoted the General Czechoslovak Exhibition taking place at the Holešovice exhibition grounds.
The exhibition will be open on both days of the fair next to the Czech Post stand. Visit the Telephone Card Collectors’ Club stand if you have interesting telephone cards at home or would like to start collecting them.
This 0 euro souvenir is being issued by the Sběratel fair in cooperation with the Trabant Museum Prague. It marks 35 years since the last Trabant left the production line.
The Trabant was manufactured in Zwickau, East Germany, and became one of the most recognisable cars of the Eastern Bloc.
The best-known model, the Trabant 601, was produced from 1964 until 1991 with only small changes. Its most unusual feature was its body made from Duroplast, a material similar to hard plastic.
In Czechoslovakia, the Trabant offered a more affordable alternative to Škoda cars, for which customers often had to wait many years.
In addition to the saloon, there was also a practical Universal estate version with more luggage space. Despite its limited power, the Trabant was also used in rallies, hill climbs and club motorsport.
The design used on the souvenir refers to this part of the Trabant’s history. It shows a racing Trabant 601 driven by Helena Huclová, one of the most successful Czechoslovak female racing drivers of the 1970s.
Her son, Martin Hucl, later founded the Trabant Museum Prague.
The first Prague trolleybus began operating on a regular route in 1936. This new form of transport was designed to combine the advantages of trams and buses.
The network gradually expanded and reached its greatest size at the end of the 1950s. Buses were later given priority because they were considered cheaper and more flexible.
The final vehicle on Prague’s original trolleybus network ran through the city in October 1972.
The return of trolleybuses began in 2017 with a test route for modern battery-powered trolleybuses. These vehicles do not need to remain connected to overhead wires for their entire route. They can travel part of the journey using energy stored in their batteries.
In 2024, trolleybus route 59 replaced airport bus route 119 between Nádraží Veleslavín and Václav Havel Airport Prague.
In the anniversary year of 2026, trolleybuses also returned to places connected with both the beginning and the former end of their operation in Prague.
The 0 euro souvenir is being issued by the Sběratel fair in cooperation with the Prague Public Transit Company.
A total of 5,000 pieces will be issued, including 400 banknotes supplied in presentation folders. Two thousand pieces will be sold at the fair. The remaining pieces will be used by the Prague Public Transit Company.
The first funicular carried passengers from Újezd street to Petřín hill in 1891, during the General Land Centennial Exhibition. However, technical problems led to the closure of the service in 1920.
The second generation began operating in 1932. It continued until 1965, when instability of the Petřín hillside forced the service to stop.
The third generation entered service in 1985.. However, heavy rain damaged the track so badly in 2024 that the service had to close before the planned reconstruction began.
The year 2026 brings the fourth generation, with new vehicles, modern technology and large panoramic windows.
The 0 euro souvenir is being issued by the Sběratel fair in cooperation with the Prague Public Transit Company.
A total of 5,000 pieces will be issued, including 400 banknotes supplied in presentation folders. Two thousand pieces will be sold at the fair. The remaining pieces will be used by the Prague Public Transit Company.
After 135 years, the Petřín hill funicular has entered the fourth stage of its history.
The new generation has brought not only new vehicles but also a complete reconstruction of the approximately half-kilometre-long route.
The new vehicles were developed in cooperation with Doppelmayr and designed by the Anna Marešová Designers studio.
The design follows the tradition of Prague public transport while looking light, modern and distinctive.
Each vehicle can carry up to 120 passengers. Large glazed fronts and panoramic windows will provide them with a much better view of Prague.
The 0 euro souvenir is being issued by the Sběratel fair in cooperation with the Prague Public Transit Company.
A total of 10,000 pieces will be issued, including 400 banknotes supplied in presentation folders. Two thousand pieces will be sold at the fair. The remaining pieces will be used by the Prague Public Transit Company.
The long-running series of collectable banknotes from Václav Zapadlík’s Golden Collection continues with another issue dedicated to “Legendary Coachwork”.
The Sběratel fair’s project reminds collectors that Václav Zapadlík was not only an exceptional artist but also a talented car body designer. His designs have been used to bring several cars back to life that had previously existed only in photographs.
The banknote has been designed by Matej Gábriš, a highly regarded creator of fantasy banknotes.
Each banknote issue is traditionally accompanied by a commemorative print, a postcard, an FDC card, a commemorative envelope, a painted metal sign and a medal in a presentation blister pack.
All these collectable items will be available at the Sberatelshop.cz stand.
The British Lagonda V12 of 1938 represents one of the greatest achievements of engineering and luxury from the period between the two world wars. It was created by the brilliant engineer W. O. Bentley.
After leaving his original car company, Bentley designed a completely new and technologically advanced 4.5-litre V12 engine with an overhead camshaft for Lagonda.
The engine produced 180 horsepower and allowed the heavy saloon or convertible to reach a speed of more than 160 kilometres per hour, an impressive figure at the time.
Fewer than 200 cars were built. This makes the model an exceptionally rare and highly valuable collector’s item today.
The prestigious Medal of the Year competition is entering its fourth year and is now expanding beyond Slovakia.
Czech works are also competing for the title of the most beautiful medal of 2025.
Members of the public were able to vote, and the winners will be announced at the Sběratel fair on Friday, 4 September.
A total of 27 works are taking part this year. The aim of the competition is to draw attention to the beauty and craftsmanship of modern medal-making.
The Sberatel Fair attracts a lot of media interest every year. Czech Television and Czech Radio provided live coverage of the event last year, and news about the Sberatel appeared on the main news on CNN TV Prima, and TV Nova.
The Prague Gem and Mineral Show, which accompanies the Sberatel Fair every year, has grown into a separate hall . Visitors were able to buy precious stones, minerals, jewellery or just get inspiration for home creations.
Traditionally, the Vinyl & Stereo Expo and the Rock & Metal Market is also held alongside the Sberatel Fair on Saturday. Collectors could find rare records from nearly forty dealers from all over Europe, CDs, cassettes and music memorabilia.
Want to know more about the Sberatel Fair? Check out the informative Czech-English publication that traces the history of the event, which is now one of the largest gatherings of collectors in Europe.
You can browse it online here, maybe you will find yourself or your friends and acquaintances there!
A special ticket will let you in already on Thursday
Both traders and impatient collectors can visit the fair already a day earlier, i.e. on Thursday, September 4, from 4PM to 7PM, and also on Friday, September 5, from 9AM, if they buy a special ticket for CZK 1000 (aprox. 45 EUR). The event opens for general public on Friday from 10AM to 6PM and on Saturday from 10AM to 5PM.
Accompanying program
The Sberatel / Collector is not only the largest sales fair of collector’s items in Central and Eastern Europe, but also offers an extensive and unique accompanying program every year. Visiting the event is therefore an interesting experience not only for collectors, but also for people who have a collector in their families and look for a gift for him or her, or for families with children.
Sberatel / Collector Fair is the largest meeting of collectors of stamps, coins, medals, banknotes, postcards, minerals and other collectibles in Central and Eastern Europe.
Every year, 230 exhibitors from 35 countries, mints, postal administrations, auction houses and leading dealers from all over the world come to Prague.
The fair is attended by 10,000 visitors, a third of them from abroad. Women and children are admitted free of charge.
A special and useful service for visitors only at the Sberatel / Collector Fair! Free valuation of stamps, coins, medals, banknotes, securities, minerals and telephone cards by independent valuers from professional organisations.
The Sberatel / Collector Fair is an opportunity to compare the offer of dozens of companies in one place.
As part of the accompanying programme, the fair hosts christenings and autograph sessions by celebrities and well-known artists, coin, medal and stamp makers.
On Saturday, you can visit the Vinyl & Stereo Expo – the biggest autumn event for vinyl record collectors – for one ticket.
In the same hall as the Sberatel / Collector Fair, the Minerals & Gemstones Fair runs both days, featuring dozens of vendors selling minerals, gemstones, designer jewelry, and things to make your own.
Register on-line and get your ticket, plus a collector´s gift, for just 1 CZK (approx. 0,035 €)!
Buy your ticket to the event on the web from the comfort of your home! There are two benefits – you will pay only CZK 1 for the ticket (it is EUR 3 when you buy it at the gate to the exhibition site) and you will also get a collector´s minicalendar for 2020, with a picture of the post stamp issued by the Czech Post, as a present. The minicalendar is not sold anywhere and you can get it only at the “Sberatel / Collector” fair.
To accomplish your registration, fill a simple form you will then receive an e-mail confirming your registration. You will print it and exchange it for a regular ticket and the gift at the box office. We are looking forward to meeting you!
If you have difficulties registering, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected]
