How many different cards do you own?

[butchie_t]

you asked......

I stopped counting at 25k

B.T.

[Arazi4442]

Like most people here, the vast majority are junk wax - if you count those then about 10k.

If I count what I would call just cards in "my collection" probably 150-200

[G1911]

Pre-war baseball: ~250
Post-war baseball vintage - ~25,000
Pre-War Tobacco - 11,732

Just total cards: Probably 250K. I have a lot of junk wax, a lot of non-sports, a lot of cheap stuff that accumulates...

[John1941]

Most of it's junk wax, but I have somewhere between 15K and 20K, and my dad has another 15K or so. My real collection is more like 3500 cards.

[mrreality68]

22 with a goal to get to 25 by years end

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

22 with a goal to get to 25 by years end

Knowing your collection Jeff best wishes on your goal by the end of the year.

[Foo3112]

I currently own 12 PSA graded cards. I am very specific as to what I collect. I use to own a lot more but decided to sell many over the years in order to get that one card I wanted instead (at that moment).

As for PSA/DNA, perhaps around 30.

Then I have quite a bit of raw cards stored in boxes and about another 2K signed by players and sitting on card savers.

[jchcollins]

Maybe slightly off-topic, but related -

Would you rather have a smaller collection of more valuable cards? Or a larger collection (whatever is "large" to you is open to interpretation...) of cards with a lower average value?

I lean towards postwar vintage because I like getting a mid grade HOF'er for the same price as it would cost me to get a beater T206 common or other prewar card. I like the idea of prewar, but the value proposition simply isn't there for me, or wasn't in 2014 or so when I got back into the hobby and set goals this go-round.

I have my limits. Here lately it seems I would rather have fifteen $100 cards than one $1500 card...but I have also sold things in the past to do the opposite.

[Smarti5051]

I have about 35-50K different cards, but the vast majority of them add up to about $20 in total value (if I could find a local guy with a van and bad judgment).

And, to answer the other question posed, I would desperately love to have a few PC cards rather than the motley crew of childhood bad judgment that currently resides in the garage. My life goal is to trade away what I have for a few binders of great vintage GOATs.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Knowing your collection Jeff best wishes on your goal by the end of the year.

Thanks Phil

I just do not know if this is a realistic or stretch goal.

[rugbymarine]

~150 cards

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by rugbymarine

~150 cards

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