Would you trade your ENTIRE collection for 1 card?

[T206Collector]

I think it certainly has to be a function of replaceability. For me, the 400 T206 cards I parted with are available right now on ebay. I may not be able to technically afford a 400 individual T206 purchases on ebay at the moment - but the right budget can make it happen over a reasonable period of time.

The question does become harder when you turn to my signed card collection, for which it would be impossible for me to replace many of them regardless of money or time. Then it purely becomes a question of which item(s) I like more.

[DixieBaseball]

Easily no, would be the answer. I can only get a certain amount of joy from 1 card. I would not trade my collection for a card worth 25-50% more as I just can't imagine parting with a decade of enjoyment from building a collection.

[Exhibitman]

I suppose everyone has their price. If it meant a significant bump in value I can definitely see swapping the whole thing for one card, then selling that card and starting again. If it was a par trade, no, I'd probably not do it. If I had to swap more than the value of the one card for it, definitely not.

I could more easily see trading either my whole collection for a group of what I consider to be the all-time classic cards, or a chunk of my collection for one such card. I've effectively done that a few times selling off chunks of my collection to finance runs at certain cards at auction.

I will say that the choice definitely gets tougher as my collection expands and improves, especially as I've added really rare cards to the pile over the years, ones that I have waited years or even decades to find. They might not even have that much relative value but their replacement value is off the charts. I mean, how do you value a card with no other known examples? Is it "worth" more than a common yet pricey card?