How many different cards do you own?

[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.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Smarti5051

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.

LOL, nice way to put it. I still smile on the Gregg Jefferies and Todd Van Poppel cards that I occasionally run across in my collection. Those dudes were supposed to have made me a retiree by now...

[Vintage Vern]

With all these cards people have I still can't pry 1 Vern Clemons card from anyone here.

[Wanaselja]

67

[kmac32]

350 prewar cards and all Topps Cubs and updates Cubs from 1951 to Current including errors and variations.

[Jeff_cvc]

Pre-war - 1049