PSA 1-10 Collections of a single card

Thanks to the massive influx of cards being graded at PSA and stuff filtering onto Ebay, I finally had the opportunity to acquire a PSA 4 Jungle Pikachu to finish my 1-10 set!

I was able to buy 6-10 on Ebay very quickly when I started this endeavor a couple years ago. 1-3 I graded myself and for a time I had the only 1, the only 2, and the only 3 (there is now at least 2 of every grade). 4 and 5 I thought were too inconsistent to grade myself and when the backlog grew to a year, I didn’t have the patience to grade for this purpose. I grabbed the 5 off ebay earlier this year and then started the hunt for the only (at the time) PSA 4 in the world and I feared it would never be complete because why would anyone be grading low quality Jungle commons and who knew where that one copy was sitting. But apparently 4 more people graded bad condition Pikachus last year and one of them has made it to me (I surprisingly actually had to bid against someone to buy it).
I plan to put them in a frame and hang it in my home office. It has been a low-cost, low-value, but long-time endeavor; but it is my all time favorite card and I take some enjoyment that I’ll have a pretty unique collection of such a commonplace card that everyone has.

My next goal is to finish my binder with 480 raw copies of the card.

Has anyone else put together a PSA 1-10 set of a card you love?

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I’m trying to complete 1st ed typhlosion 17 graded 1-9 at the moment. Probably won’t be able to afford the 10 unfortunately

Thats a sweet collection and what a unique idea! Congrats on finishing it

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Thanks! I can’t take credit for the idea, I saw someone trying to do it with base set Alakazam several years ago but I definitely haven’t seen many others in the time since then! I’m just lucky my favorite card is so cheap

Time to start working on the .5s

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Big congrats on completing it! Maybe I’ll one day try to get a PSA 1-10 set of the Moltres, considering I do have the 4 already that I graded myself from my original childhood card. :blush:

I know @xgav1337x has done a PSA 1-10 unlimited Charizard in 2017. He also made a short (and still unfinished *wink @ xgav* :stuck_out_tongue: ) article about it here on the forum.

Greetz,
Quuador

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Great to see this, I can imagine how fun it must be to own these!

Well done :raised_hands:t3::grinning:

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Good luck on your binder! I now want to send in a bent in half Lugia and get a PSA 1

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Tried to go for a Base Set Blastoise 1-10 set and the hardest one to get was the 2. When I started the set the Pop for that was like 4 or something if I remember correctly. Stopped when I was just missing the 1 which I wanted to grade myself but no copy came back as a 1 yet :joy:

Love this! Good luck on the 480 cards, reminds me of this:

- YouTube_7ph4wY

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It’s surprisingly hard to find something already in 1 condition - and just damaging it yourself feels wrong haha. That’s what I ended up having to do for the 1 and 2 though after my first worst condition one came back as the 3

Thanks! I think I’m somewhere in the 300s at last count - it’s slowed down since it stopped being a 50 cent card on Troll and Toad

This is great.Would you consider adding the set of half grades to this?

I thought a about doing this with Corocoro Mew

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I don’t think so. This feels nice and neat and complete to me even though there are .5 grades out there

This sentence resonated with me and I feel like it captures the essence of collecting. There’s a lot of high-end collections that stop me in my tracks but this collection sends me back to my childhood and reminds me why I picked up Pokemon in the first place. I respect the hustle and congratulations on the goal!

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I wish I never saw this article. I have a PSA 6 Gold Star gyarados that looks 10000% better than that zard. When I submitted it I anticipated an 8. Such a dissapointment :slightly_frowning_face: Really bothers me to see cards with higher grades that look crappier than mine, esp after I waited 1yr to get them back.

I was wondering if anyone had done this the other day!
Love it, great work :grin:

Totally. Looking forward to your raw card lot update when it’s complete :wink:

Collection goals! Congrats on accomplishing this unique goal :blush: