Hello everyone. I’ve been collecting for over a year now, so I figure it’s time to share some of my collection.
My main goal, which I recently completed, was a PSA 9 1st edition base holo set. It was a hectic time period to collect these cards because in the year I was buying these, all of them had drastic price increases. For example, I bought my Gyarados about a year ago for $200 and remember seeing a sale several months ago where one sold for $600. I though I would never be able to get them all with the pace at which prices were increasing. Now look at the market, it’s saturated and these prices have stabilized.
It’s been 5-6 months since my first update, so I’ll share some cards I’ve acquired since then. My ultimate goal was to complete the 1st edition base holo set in PSA 9. I was able to do that and have now made the decision to start upgrading the set to PSA 10. It’s going to be a long/lifetime goal.
My girlfriend found a Skyridge lot on eBay that we took a gamble on. We ended up selling the Charizard ungraded to make the money back from the purchase and then graded the Celebi. She had me send it in with a minimum 10 grade
Finally, I pulled this Mewtwo from a shadowless pack I bought from @pokemonrevolution . I thought it had a chance at grading 10, but I’m still happy with the 9. The card feels special knowing that I was able to pull it from a pack.
Here’s my 1st Edition Gym Challenge PSA 9-10 set, all graded myself. This was the first set I started collecting as ungraded cards when I got back in the hobby.
I finished up my Champions Festival Staff promos that run from 2013 - present, all PSA 9 except for 2016.
I call this collection as a whole my “tropical collection”. My goal is to obtain all staff variants from 2004-present and the Tropical Wind and Lucky Stadium.
** Base Set Magnemite Variants **Magnemite is my favorite base set pokemon. I believe the only variant I’m missing is 1st edition thin stamp. Japanese Base Set No Rarity 1st Edition Thick 1st Edition Gray Shadowless Unlimited 4th Print 1st Edition French 1st Edition German 1st Edition Italian 1st Edition Portuguese 1st Edition Spanish Base 2 Legendary Collection Legendary Collection Rev Evolutions Evolutions Rev CP6