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Rockchalk said:
The 84 Topps set is notorious for off centering and even staggered framing. You could open a brand new, untouched pack of 84 Topps and pull a Marino rookie that has never seen the light of day and it may only grade out as a PSA 6. A PSA 6 sold yesterday on EBAY for $35. For a point of comparison, you can buy an unopened 84 Topps pack on EBAY for about $50 with no assurance that it has not been tampered with or not dropped, etc. And you have about a 1 in 30 chance of it containing a Marino.... Elway is also in the set and comparable to the Marino card (a little less desirable/valuable) plus Dickerson and a few other lesser names like Duper, Craig, Long, etc.

In short, any raw (ungraded) Marino rookie out there is far likely to be a PSA 3 or 4 ($10-$15) than a 9, much less a 10. Oh, and it costs about $20 to get graded, if not more depending on the tier pricing which is an entirely other conversation.
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That's why the PSA 9 or 10 is so expensive. It takes the guess work out of it. Buying unopened packs to try to get a high graded card is a losing proposition, like playing roulette in Vegas. The odds are against you.
 
bdizzle00 said:
That’s really what it’s all about. I have a pretty big collection including over 300 Tua rookies that I’ll be giving my son. He might be able to pay 1/10th of one semester of college with it, LOL (god I hope he goes to trade school).
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My entire Dolphins collection has meant a lot to me and my son over the years...funny part is my grandson really only knows what we have told him and might of might not hang on to these things ......I can only pass it on.
 
zucca said:
That's why the PSA 9 or 10 is so expensive. It takes the guess work out of it. Buying unopened packs to try to get a high graded card is a losing proposition, like playing roulette in Vegas. The odds are against you.
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Yeah, opening packs is a lot of fun, but it’s a much better financial investment to just buy one card for the money you’re going to spend on packs or boxes.
 
bdizzle00 said:
This card today is worth about $40 in a PSA 5. Which means it probably was worth less than $10 when it was sold. It’s more of a statement of the father selling whatever he had to provide whatever he could to his family, which makes it even more beautiful and meaningful.
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It was probably worth more than the $40 when it sold. At one time, the Marino rookie was worth between $80-100 according to Beckett. The card market has dropped drastically in the past 30 years with a slight comeback recently. I still have a couple albums and a box full of cards from when I was growing up. I also have 20 or Starting Lineup figures. The value of those has gone down tons since I started collecting them. I never carded about their collector's value--I only bought players I liked and actually played with them at one time when I was younger. I could not have cared less what they were actually worth. My 1989 Dan Marino and 1990 Joe Montana had many epic Super Bowls on my parents' living room floor when I was in elementary school. MY Testeverde Bucs figure also came out on the losing end of some SB matchups against Marino and the Dolphins.
 
When I moved to Miami in 94 I lost my entire binder of football cards I had been collecting from the previous 5 or so years, so you can only imagine the cards I had in there. I still think about it from time to time.

I had a few Marino cards, Rice, young, Bo Jackson, Barry sanders rookie, etc., etc. I don't even want to imagine what all of those cards are worth now
 
I have a couple of Marino rookies, all a little off center, but I also have the entire 84 set on 3 uncut sheets. Marino and Elway are on the same sheet. I have no idea how much that set would be worth??? :shrug:
 
NEPA Phin Phan said:
I have a couple of Marino rookies, all a little off center, but I also have the entire 84 set on 3 uncut sheets. Marino and Elway are on the same sheet. I have no idea how much that set would be worth??? :shrug:
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In November, that 3 sheet set went for $341 at auction on eBay. There were 28 bids.
 
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