Vintage Raw to Graded Wins

[Mr.Garrison]

I enjoy the process of hunting for clean raw vintage cards and grading them. With how optimized the current market is, finding gradable vintage is becoming increasingly difficult.

So… let’s live vicariously through each other!

Post up your best vintage finds of 2025!

Where/how did you find it?, How much did you pay?, What did it grade? How much is it worth after grading? etc

I’ll start…

I was looking at cards in a comic shop I stumbled across weeks prior. While chatting with the owner, I casually mentioned that I didn’t see anything different from my last visit. He pulled out a binder that he just purchased which hadn’t been priced yet and I found this fella in it. It was un-sleeved and had some dirt on it. We agreed on $150.

After cleaning the dirt off I was pleasantly surprised with the condition of the card and thought it had a decent shot at an 8. I spent about $180 total between the card and grading costs. Market price on the 7 is around $600 so I can’t complain.

Excited to see everyones else’s finds

[mrbigchip]

I do the opposite - I hunt for PSA 6 & 7’s that will look like 10’s when cracked and put into the binder. Once they are in there, I’m never looking at the back of the card ever again.

[shockerb37]

Most of the cards I’ve bought to grade so far this year are still in grading, so I can’t say for sure yet. But for last year these two are probably the best I had. Purchased from the same seller on eBay, both listed as LP but looked suspiciously mint. Now they’re sequential CGC 10s

[pwavy]

Yup this is how I try to do my binder sets. Graded 7-8s are also often cheaper than their raw counterparts and 5-6 are usually much cheaper

[Mr.Garrison]

Any chance you’re looking for a PSA7 Gengar?

[mrbigchip]

I’ll keep you posted

[xileets]

It IS satisfying. Becoming harder and harder these days…