What is the first 10 you have ever bought, not graded, yourself? Was it a chase, a random ebay bin, an impulse buy? Do you regret it? Do you still have it? Share below! All companies welcome! Just make sure its a card you bought as a 10.
My first psa 10 purchase was this Koga’s Koffing I bought a year ago or so. Its one of my favorite Koffing arts, in part cause it has multiple Koffings featured. Even in modern cards its somewhat rare to have the same pokemon featured multiple times, albeit more common today.
I still own the card and see very little reason to sell it, especially as its also my first graded card ever.
I don’t have it anymore, but I’m pretty sure it was a Charizard 002/PCG-P promo, from the 2004 Battle Road, which I think I bought in 2015. I don’t regret buying it, or selling it.
I will say that the options for buying graded cards back then were much more limited, which I don’t think is necessarily a bad thing. These days you can probably buy a PSA 6 bulk common and think ‘yeah grading sucks’, when in reality it’s that specific card that doesn’t make you feel anything. The flip side is that you can buy graded cards for next to nothing, to at least try and understand.
this is the card that made me fall into the hobby at the age of 35. A deep, red dive, a masterpiece where you can litteraly feel the heat of sunset flow through pidgeot’s feathers (or a forest fire?) i still vividly remember being astonished upon discovering pokemon cards could deliver this kind of intense ablazement. It’s the tungstene red glow of Challenger thermal shield entering the atmosphere.
I think I had already bought some other graded 9s at this point (not sure anymore which was my very first one ), but my first 10 would be this old BGS/JSA-10 Mitsuhiro Arita autographed Pikachu (on the left):
Bought both of these Pikachu at once, to have both an English and Japanese signature of Mitsuhiro Arita. Apparently I paid 196.50 USD for each of them if I look in my emails.
Pretty dang steep for a September 2016 purchase, ngl. Then again, it was through PWCC auctions, which were always a bit higher. And there also weren’t nearly as many Mitsuhiro Arita autographed cards available back then compared to nowadays.
Also, TIL that Beckett used to collaborate with JSA for autograph authentication until November 2016, according to this Autographs reddit post, even though they’re competitors nowadays.
A bit of history in these old slabs.
Haha i know that feeling, i drove 2 hours to pick up my aquapolis holo houndoom psa 9 for 80,- because sending it through the mail seemed too scary Times have changed. Must have been around 2017
), but my first 10 would be this old BGS/JSA-10 Mitsuhiro Arita autographed Pikachu (on the left):
Times have changed. Must have been around 2017
