Is this Card Scarce?

69topps8

1968 Gates Brown

I'm just starting on the 1968 set and I'm trying to determine which commons are the tough ones. $60+ for a PSA 8 common indicates this is a tough common. Do you '68 set builders agree?

FB

The current Pop Report says there are 15 PSA 8's without qualifier but zero 9's. $67 with 12 hours to go? Looks like someone is obsessing about this one card. You woulda lost me at $15.00.

Frank Bakka
68, 69, 72
And soon 70 and 71

waitilltheytrytosell

The Brown is a Tigers card. 1968 Tigers are a very popular year for people to collect. So you will have a lot of team set collectors fighting complete set collectors for any of the Tiger cards. 15 cards on a Twins card this year, and who cares. 15 cards on a Tigers, isn't enough.

qualitycards

WAITTIL is right! The '68 Tigers are in demand on so many different levels.
I have almost 60% (about 350 of the 598) of the '68 set graded 8's & 9's - and the team I have the fewest of is Tigers. I have 8 different Tigers, and in comparison I have 18 diff. Dodgers & 17 diff. Yankees. I had some '68 PSA-8 eBay auctions end the other night and a Richie Allen ended up at $9.99 but the Tiger mgr Mayo Smith ended at $31.00. So as a collector assembling my set, I try to scarf up the commons I need that are below $15.00 (SMR is $12.00) - and then I let the collectors that "have to have" the card battle it out so they in turn will not bid on them in the future and a more reasonable price can be had. Over a year ago I auctioned off another '68 Richie Allen and it exceeded $30.00. So unless a whole new wave of set, player or team collectors come into the picture values will get lower as the people who need the issues stop bidding.

To any 1968 collectors interested in a trade of other '68's (8's or higher)
I will trade book for book, common for common. Email on what you have, and I will Email you my dupe list...jay

dude

I've sold many 1968 Topps Tiger PSA 8 and 9 cards and they always bring a premium except for some that are in high population. I know at least two collectors that appear to be hoarding the harder to find ones. Paying over $75 for a Gates Brown PSA 8 is pretty much in line with what I've sold them for in the past. I sold a 1968 PSA 9 Jim Northrup in a direct sale last month for $350 and the buyer was elated to get the card (I realized afterwards that I could have asked for a lot more for it and probably would have still sold it).

69topps8

Yikes, thanks for the info. Maybe we can talk BJ into eliminating the Tigers cards from the '68 set registry? Although I'm entering the 1968 set building "contest", I don't plan on paying outrageous money for those cards. I need a lot of high pop cards and will focus on those first.

It doesn't make sense to hoard a particular card if it has tons of high grade raw examples available. In the end, they will probably line the pockets of the sellers they bought the card from and then sell the cards later when the populations are high and there are no more hoarders to sell the card to.

skylaneflyer

Even in the 67's, many of the Tiger cards are popular and bring premium prices, especially the Team card.

Sky