What is the best card you ever traded for?

[PowderedH2O]

Summer of 1976: We lived down the street from New Orleans Jazz player E.C. Coleman. A friend wanted to get an autograph and I had the only EC card around. He ended up trading me from a box of cards his dad gave him a bunch of cards which included a 1960 Topps All-Star Mickey Mantle and a 1952 Topps Ed Mathews. A few years later I traded the Ed Mathews for a stack of early 60's HOFers including Mantles, Aarons, Mays, etc. All for one 1975-76 Topps basketball common.

[philliesphan]

T-206 Proof of Kitty Bransfield. The colors simply pop-

[NateMack]

What great stories!

Thanks for sharing!
Nate

[almostdone]

Not as big now but funny to think about. I was working on a trade back around 1991 for a 1989 Upper Deck Griffey rookie. I had a few smaller cards trying to coax a deal. The card that pushed it over the edge? 1990 Score Bo Jackson football/ baseball bw card.
Funny to think any score card from 1990 could complete a trade.
Drew

[Exhibitman]

Picked up a 1958 Bell Gino Cimoli SP as a throw-in on a deal. Sadly, sold it many years ago.

[lutherlafy]

I think it was about 1978 at a card show in the Astrodome.
I traded 2 1955 Rodeo wiener cards and 1 1954 Wilson wiener card
for a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle.
At a card show in Ft. Smith, Arkansas about 1976, I obtained my
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card. I had to trade CASH though and
it was $35.
Guess what? I still have the Mantle cards.

A through the mail trade I think around 1980, I traded a 1952 Topps
Willie Mays (paid $5. for it) for 3 TY COBB signed checks.

[hangman62]

I received a 1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig card from an all time card collecting legend - Brock Haddox !

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Glen- I attended my first two card shows in 1976 in Ft. Smith! The first was at a small building in a park and the second was at a motel on the south end of town. Both were put on by the great John England.

At the first I purchased an Old Judge, Bushong St. Louis Browns for $4.00 and bought 1975 Topps football wax boxes for $1.00 each!

[dabigyankeeman]

I was breaking up my collection as I was condensing to only New York cards, and I had a few thousand commons and minor stars from the 1960's and I traded all of them to a dealer friend for a 1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle in real nice shape.

[JBird]

Couple years back I traded about 20 crap jersey patch cards (all one colored patches) for a 2011 Bowman Sterling Mike Trout rookie. Base value at the time for that was about $40 but I recently sold it for $190. I wanted to hold onto it. But when the value quadrupled I had to sell it.