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Regarding purchasing the Nolan Rookie...

AlbertanDudeAlbertanDude Posts: 180 ✭
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Hello their fellow card collectors...as most of you know, I am soley at this point a Hockey card collecter
but I have been getting the vibe to start at least collectiing the heroes of my yesterdays in other sports....

What I need from you fine discerning chaps is how much a PSA 8 Nolan 68 Rookie should cost me....PSA 8 only
or the equivlelant raw if such raw cards exist any longer........I simply do not want to pay far over the cost yet
I do know this is quite a wonderfu and sought after card....I see one on sale right now on ebay with a starting
cost of 975 US........

Is that reasonble..........what on average does a Nolan rookie in PSA 8 go for these days...

Help out a fellow card collecting nut?

Thanks Lads

From Alberta

Comments

  • jskirwinjskirwin Posts: 700 ✭✭✭
    I collect Baseball 1967-78.

    That's about the SMR, and the Ryans are very consistent price-wise. Turning to the completed listings on the 'Bay, note that two PSA 7s went for 499/425 respectively. Also an 8OC went for $360 - the same as a 7OC (go figure).

    I'd say that depending on the eye-appeal of the card and how much you want it, $975 seems a fair price to me.
  • srs1asrs1a Posts: 398 ✭
    I think $975 is a tad high. That one has very nice centering, which is a definate big plus...but the scan sucks so bad that you can't tell much more.
    Dr S. of the Dead Donkeys MC
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree that $975 is a tad high. Certainly not outrageous, but if you wait you find find a nice one even cheaper.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • aro13aro13 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭
    The price on Ryan Topps rookies has really fluctuated. The last 5 PSA 8's

    $942
    $1400
    $855
    $657 - I doubt this sale is legit as the seller did not have PSA in the title and is no longer a registered user
    $2031 (a memory lane auction!!!!)

    A BVG 8 landed at $1175 and an SGC 8.5 finished at $960 although it is too OC to have a shot at a 9.
  • AlbertanDudeAlbertanDude Posts: 180 ✭
    Thanks Guys......this novice indeed appreciates all the info...their certainly is a lot of Nolan Rookies
    for sale........Is it ever possible nowadays to pick up a high grade Raw example of his rookie???

    Thanks
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is it ever possible nowadays to pick up a high grade Raw example of his rookie??? >>



    High grade raw, most of the time, = trimmed. You can occasionally get lucky, but there's a lot more money to be made on a graded card versus a raw one, so you always have to be suspicious of a supposedly high grade card that is not in a legit holder.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • TJMACTJMAC Posts: 864 ✭✭
    I like Ryan, but I can't believe how expensive his cards are. He is certainly the Mickey Mantle of pitchers.
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