I pretty much only collect Mantle and Judge cards. Ten years ago, when I had roughly fifty Mickey Mantle cards, I tried to liquidate my collection to buy a 52 Topps. Couldn’t get a high enough offer for the cards to justify parting with them at that time. So, I just went ahead and bought two 52 Mantle cards (later sold one to buy a house). At that time in collecting, none of my cards had a ton of sentimental meaning and none were particularly rare, so it made sense to try to get one meaningful card.
In retrospect, I do really wish I’d gone ahead and parted with the cards then and just stocked up on 52 Mantles as I think I would have enjoyed having 5 or 6 of them over a bunch of lower value cards. Such is life.
Do what makes you happy. But think hard about whether that is one or many cards.
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