Mid-Grade Collectors

[MBH65]

I hope it’s okay for me to bump this thread. I just got back into the hobby a couple of months ago after being away for over 3 decades. I’m basically starting all over again. I sold off almost all of my collection over 30 years ago, except for a few of my favorite cards. It has been quite a learning experience getting up to speed with where the hobby is now. Things sure have changed since I was in the hobby back in the late 1980s.

This thread about mid-grade collecting is definitely one of the best things that I have found in my hobby re-education so far. I started out again in collecting by looking at higher grade cards and I quickly found it to be kind of stressful. I wanted to make sure that I was fine with any flaws that I could find in a card graded at something like a PSA 8 before I potentially spent money on the card. That was no fun at all.

After reading this thread and few others similar to it, I decided to settle into mid-grade cards in the 3-6 range, with an occasional 7, for cards from the 50s through 70s. It’s been more fun since then. A nicely centered card with nice color and registration in that grade range is a nice looking card and a heck of lot easier on the wallet and stress level. I can also get what seems to be infinitely more cards that way versus focusing on high graded cards.

Anyway, hello to you all from Ohio.

Michael