Cool chain of events. Glad it paid off for you.

All I have is a 1991 Todd Marinovich Rookie Card. I took at it to a card shop and the owner said if I paid him $10 he would throw it away for me.

A fun segment of Antiques Roadshow from about a year ago.

Congrats!!!

$112K? I think the base Porsche 911 is $109K. Get the manual.

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Congrats!!!

$112K? I think the base Porsche 911 is $109K. Get the manual.

LOL. Yes, but the resulting transaction would cost me a wife, so I'm going to have to pass on that deal.

That is pretty awesome. What a cool story to finish a pretty crappy week.

Thank you for sharing that!

I got into it around the 4th edition set. I still have all of my cards and playable decks. I know they are worth thousands, but I still don’t think I’d sell them. My wife and I still play occasionally.

I have a killer fun red/green land destruction deck.

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I got into it around the 4th edition set. I still have all of my cards and playable decks. I know they are worth thousands, but I still don’t think I’d sell them. My wife and I still play occasionally.

I have a killer fun red/green land destruction deck.

I’d be scanning them all in and making a home made deck from the scans and be selling away.

Man I really need to find my collection.

I had a few hundred MtG cards but those were all cheapies bought for a specific purpose. About 25 years ago my friend was almost suicidal when his girlfriend left him. For about a month I would play MtG with him in the evenings to take his mind off of the break-up. I was rather fond of the Redwood Ent cards. So that was my brief stint with MtG. As an instrment of distraction MtG served its purpose.

Because I had owned a board game called 'Arabian Nights', and owned the Richard Burton translation of 'The 1001 Nights', and some translations of Ibn al'Arabi, and Mansur al'Halaj, and Rumi I wanted to buy a deck of the Dervish Edition for sentimental reasons. Even back then the Arabian Nights deck was spendy. Too spendy for me then and now.

OP, enjoy and make the best use of your boon wealth.

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I’d be scanning them all in and making a home made deck from the scans and be selling away.

Man I really need to find my collection.

Seriously considering that. Not a big eBay fan, so I'm wondering what the best option to sell would be. I went through them last night and found out I could have at least a couple of grand worth.

*********BUMPING A FAIRLY OLD THREAD************

Here we are 4 years later and I finally found my collection that has been tucked away in my mother’s house.

What is the best way to value these things??
Not expecting anything near the luck of the OP but if I come out with a couple hundred bucks I won’t be mad.

You can go to various sites to generally price them, but if you have really good cards you are going to want to get them graded.

My local cardboard crack dealer

Beckett, or other similar card graders, can offer deals in bulk. If you eyeball and you don't have any really expensive cards you can go to your local store and see what you get.

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Wow, you were truly lucky on that. Good for you. How much would your original deck of 302 be worth now?

The original 302 that I sold for 14k would be worth a minimum of $155k now. And yes, I kick myself for it. But I really thought the market had peaked at that point. Shows how wrong I was.

Wouldn’t it depend on the return from your daughter’s education? I mean if she still lives at home and doesn’t have a job, then you were wrong. If she’s a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins then you did ok.

I used Quiet Speculation.

https://www.quietspeculation.com/

They have (for a monthly fee) feeds from the major buyers so it's easy to see the price of any card based on condition. I would recommend that you forget about "Mint" and use prices for "Near Mint" for anything that looks flawless (as in my experience they never buy at mint prices, they only sell at mint prices). Hope that makes sense.

I should also say - I'm not promoting this particular service - just found it useful when I was trying to find values and the right place (i.e. the highest prices) to sell to.

I still have my old decks. I need to go through them to assess value.

I went to GenCon, my first, in 1994 and MtG was EVERYWHERE. I never got into it. An old friend who went with me was, somewhat, and he sold off his rare cards for like 15k 6-8 years. Ago. I sold an unopened "Ice Ages" booster back from a 1995 convention for like $50 maybe 10 years ago.

Just did a BRIEF look through based on the Quite Speculation website.

There's at least 5000 in my box. Nice.

Holy cow I wish I hadn't of thrown those away...

What am awesome windfall! Fuck yeah! Guess I didn't see this the first go around.