What percentage of your collection is graded?

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Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

It is well worth the $2K to get it in a 1/1.5 PSA holder. It will have an immediate value in the holder that it does not have raw.

Even if you have no intention to sell, it is worth the dough in case someone inherits it at some point in time that has no idea of the value of the raw version.

Just one opinion of course but I would grade it in a minute at $2K.

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500+ raw Mark Grace cards in a binder by year because that's one I really enjoy flipping through.

200+ raw Cubs autograph cards that are sitting in Card Saver II's that I can flip through. I generally break the autos out if they're slabbed.

200-ish other raw cards that I've either pulled, want to keep raw for one reason or another, or are "type example" collection cards so I have a reference that I can closely inspect+handle.

228 graded Cubs cards of HOF/greats/notables 1800s-current.

482 graded 1950-2011 HOF/greats/notables...used to be until 2001 for Pujols/Ichiro and around 2015 I decided that I needed to bump that up to 2011 to add Trout...it may change to 2020+ at some point.

I'm not going to count the raw cards which I plan to grade later (about a dozen) or other cards, raw or graded, that I'm planning on selling later and are only technically part of my collection.

Looking around a 60/40 non-graded to graded mix over here and I love all 5 of the main parts of my collection in their own way. All are easily flipped through and all are arranged in some kind of logical order within the specific collection.