How many individual cards do you have?
Copyboy1
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I'm curious about the size of everyone's collection. (Not worth, just physical size.) What's a rough estimate of your current collection (and what your high water mark was).
High water mark: 50,000
Current: 1,000
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500k still, easy. Maybe 750-800k, at peak.
Boxes of the dam things.
It's like a plague. 😉
I would say at least 500,000 for me, too. I don't really want to think about it too hard.
~25-30K? High mark was probably around 35K. Sadly, I've also literally dumped thousands of cards in the trash. Years ago, I used to just throw away cards that didn't fit my collecting interests (not valuable ones...at least not back then). What an idiot.
was 4+ million a few months ago, but have been slowly trading off the commons for sets and rookie lots
As primarily an unopened collector I actually never thought about counting the number of cards. I have thought about counting packs of cards or effective packs of cards given my affinity for vending boxes.
Now you have given me a weekend project!
John
moved it all into NFTs. so, like, 3500 but technically zero? 😉
Hundreds.
bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
How many is a box truck full?
100s of thousands. honestly, I really dont want to know
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I've gotten rid of most of my raw cards, maybe have a couple hundred left. I only collect graded and have maybe 300
NFL HOF Set
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/398345
Must be around 30k now.. I gave a few crates of them to goodwill early last year before all the craziness.. Someone came out pretty good with those I bet...
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
I have either given away or sold 30,000 in the past few years. My “core collection” is about 1,000 - 1,500 but I must have a few thousand more in my total collection.
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox
I have about 30,000....my high water mark was around double that. Imma 70+ Years now but I’m still a sucker for a good deal.
Just off the top of my head 200k+. No sure about all the Case's I have laying around.
too many; probably 3-5 million
I have to much S**t; so if you working on sets or are a player/team collector, send me your want list, with conditions desired. Keep in mind I have a another job so please allow me a few days to respond.
how are you doing this and where? I am very interested in doing the same
I have to much S**t; so if you working on sets or are a player/team collector, send me your want list, with conditions desired. Keep in mind I have a another job so please allow me a few days to respond.
4065 individual cards and 96 complete sets. Dumped or sold off a couple of thousand cards from various sports the past 10 years including a half dozen Tom Brady rookies for short money.
i am getting close to 100k and i am running out room. i may have to move some to my brothers place and see if he will let me store them in his spare shed.
300,000-350,000 at the moment. Storage is an issue and the garage has housed many of these. That's not always a good idea.I had some cases of unopened Mother's Cookies (Ryan-1989 or 90) that bugs ate into at one point. Most are now in plastic containers. I would say about 70,000 to 80,000 are unopened. I'm in my middle 60's now and have decided I shouldn't be hoarding so much. My fav's are vintage 60s and any oddball food products with baseball. Unopened is 1983 through 2020, with a few earlier packs from group buys here and BBCE purchases years ago. Maybe I need to stop buying and start submitting to PSA.
Previous CU user: jmmiller777
Baseball HOFer's-PSA6+
Heritage Sets
Kellogg's Graded-PSA 8+
60's Topps Sets-Raw
Anything that Catches My Attention
About 1.5 mil at least
Closing in on 183,000. Does not count duplicates, which is probably about 80,000 more.
I don't do baseball or football, which limits the total possible number.
Provided I counted correctly. I keep a line by line listing in Excel of the exact order I get each card and it's numerical ranking in my collection (both overall, yearly, and by topic) but I only started that in 2014. Eventually when I finish scanning everything and get them all typed into Excel I will know for sure. I suspect it's not totally accurate as I don't think I counted the cards that were not standard size in the 1990s.
Try using the Trading Card Database site. There you can create an inventory of your cards and you can use the images provided so you don't have have to scan your cards. They also provide pricing info for millions of cards too. And they have stats too about your collection such as which cards are graded and who you have the most cards of. It's a great website. Check it out.
And you don't need to type anything. You can bring up a set checklist and just check the box if you have a particular card. You can also edit the entry to include any personal comments.
just finished counting~ 1.85 billion. ~about half are Darryl Strawberry's, couple Wally Backman's.
I don't even think Wally Backman could make a big league roster today.
does '80 topps basketball count as 1 card or 3?
Under 100 now. All raw.
1 PSA graded when it is finally graded and shipped.
Out of curiosity, which one?
I probably have about 75k cards raw. Most of those are complete or nearly complete sets and 95% are Topps Baseball. The other 5% are Football or vintage Baseball outside of Topps (Bowman, various tobacco, Goudey, etc.). Right now, I have about 150 graded and should have another 150 when they come back from PSA in 2023-2024.
2018 Topps Now Bundesliga Marco Reus. A PC card of a favorite player.
If you don't follow soccer, he is the captain of Bundesliga team Borussia Dortmund and the German national team.
A lot, and I am not even thinking of trying to count.
I was a set collector in the 80s, building sets through rips....
So a metric $&@# ton
I’m going to guess 30-40,000. I can’t imagine you guys that have 1M+. How do you store them? Can you even enjoy that many?
FWIW, it takes somewhere between 560,000 and 570,000 cards to make a metric ton, not including any packaging. I'll bet there are many who have that many.