YouTheManNick
03-26-2019, 10:04 PM
Pardon the long story / explanation, but I think it's necessary to understand why I'm asking.
I come in and out of the hobby and primarily collect baseball. But I'm a HUGE Bulls fan, so sometime around 2008-2009 I bought two boxes of Topps Chrome (I know it was two because I have two autos) hoping to hit a Rose. I bought the boxes while visiting the folks in Illinois. I was living in CA at the time and did not bring the cards back with me. Just put them in the closet and forgot about them.
Fast forward to today. I recently moved back to Chicago and I injured myself last week and have doctors orders to rest so I headed to the burbs to spend the week with the folks. Today I was digging around and stumbled across my stash of 2008-09 Topps Chrome cards.
I must say. I had two good boxes. Hit a super - Larry Hughes - but still, a super.
But the big boy.
Lebron James Gold 4/50.
A PSA 10 recently sold on Ebay for just under 6k
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2008-Topps-Chrome-Gold-Refractor-LeBron-James-50-23-PSA-10-GEM-MINT-PWCC/401705923367?hash=item5d8789f327:g:dAgAAOSwstNcYey0
I'm completely blown away by this. By far the most valuable card I own. Even more valuable than my Jordan RC. And it was just hiding in a box for ten years.
I'm definitely gonna get it graded and I can't imagine it being less than a 9. Very possibly a 10, but as someone who's not a big basketball guy, my question is should I sell it or hold it?
I'm not an LBJ fan. Not in the least. But I'm also not hard up for cash, so a part of me feels like I should hold it because I can't imagine it ever decreasing in value. But the other part of me is having all sorts of visions of what I could do with $5k+ from a card I completely forgot I even had.
What do you guys as people who know more about basketball think?
I come in and out of the hobby and primarily collect baseball. But I'm a HUGE Bulls fan, so sometime around 2008-2009 I bought two boxes of Topps Chrome (I know it was two because I have two autos) hoping to hit a Rose. I bought the boxes while visiting the folks in Illinois. I was living in CA at the time and did not bring the cards back with me. Just put them in the closet and forgot about them.
Fast forward to today. I recently moved back to Chicago and I injured myself last week and have doctors orders to rest so I headed to the burbs to spend the week with the folks. Today I was digging around and stumbled across my stash of 2008-09 Topps Chrome cards.
I must say. I had two good boxes. Hit a super - Larry Hughes - but still, a super.
But the big boy.
Lebron James Gold 4/50.
A PSA 10 recently sold on Ebay for just under 6k
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2008-Topps-Chrome-Gold-Refractor-LeBron-James-50-23-PSA-10-GEM-MINT-PWCC/401705923367?hash=item5d8789f327:g:dAgAAOSwstNcYey0
I'm completely blown away by this. By far the most valuable card I own. Even more valuable than my Jordan RC. And it was just hiding in a box for ten years.
I'm definitely gonna get it graded and I can't imagine it being less than a 9. Very possibly a 10, but as someone who's not a big basketball guy, my question is should I sell it or hold it?
I'm not an LBJ fan. Not in the least. But I'm also not hard up for cash, so a part of me feels like I should hold it because I can't imagine it ever decreasing in value. But the other part of me is having all sorts of visions of what I could do with $5k+ from a card I completely forgot I even had.
What do you guys as people who know more about basketball think?