Hey Guys! I am one of those Baseball guys from the Blowout forums. To update you on the print run on the Ginter X full size black cards (normal baseball card size). The print run is believed to be around 500 of each card. I opened 12 boxes and ended up with 6 regular black cards and 1 mini black card (less than 100 each). The average for 12 boxes should be around 4-5 of each card in the base set.
Regular Ginter (the white cards) have an unknown print run (probably a few thousand). The full sized white cards will be by far the most common.
I noticed some of you guys opening boxes. I would be willing to trade my crypto cards for some of your cards. I am keeping 1 for my personal collection.
Welcome to bitcointalk  Any particular cards you are looking for to trade on one of your X cards? |
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Yesterday I opened up my first hobby box, and wanted to share this card that was in one of the packs:
What an awesome piece of history. To clarify, you are saying this is a replica and not an actual item from long ago. It's the real tobacco card, inside of the sealed outer frame. 130 yr old relic in there. These are some of the earliest known examples of sports trading cards. |
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Notable eBay sale:  |
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As indicated by Mrstacy, notable eBay sale:  |
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The 2nd edition mini's will become difficult to come by since the entire set was short printed and collectors will be hanging on to a few of these. So get them while you can when you see them, just my opinion  What do you mean by "2nd edition" minis? Do you mean the Black Hobby X minis? Regards, Chris Yes, I was confused by this and dolph confirmed that he's referring to the overall X series minis. (I thought maybe there were two printings within the X series). |
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@dolph do you have a source on these, or did you crunch them yourself based on projections? They seem right but I haven't come across any stats in this list other than the black border 1:10 statistic. Knowing odds of the very unique 1/1 and 1/25 stuff would indicate that we likely know the entire production run numbers.
Look on the back of the pack of cards For retail packs, I see. Added odds to OP. |
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Do you know which mint this was from? Nanjing, Shanghai, etc. Pretty neat coins. I was into these coins a couple years back but far from an expert. Any idea on mintages?
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- One full size hot box parallel card is included per hobby box (Overall odds: ~1:300 hobby boxes)
Are these the same card? I know that there is one "Hot Box" per case of Hobby Boxes, and the Hot Box is the same as all the other Hobby Boxes in the case, except that the base cards (full size) of the Hot Box have silver, glossy backgrounds. Plus, I've opened a normal (non-Hot Box) Hobby Box, and I did not find a "Full Size Hot Box Parallel" inside. Please forgive my ignorance. I'm new to this trading card hobby. Regards, Me Did your hobby box include a full size card? When I watched a youtube video of a case break, each hobby box contained had an oversized card within the hobby box. I was assuming this was that card. But since it's a "hot box" parallel, it may be more limited than that. So what is the regular oversized card called? I'm confused as well. See video of case break at exact time where they find one of these common oversized cards "topper cards" in a hobby box: https://youtu.be/Otj9O-_Kkiw?t=3015Same video, when they found an actual HOT box with the glossy/silver cards: https://youtu.be/Otj9O-_Kkiw?t=2527 |
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@dolph do you have a source on these, or did you crunch them yourself based on projections? They seem right but I haven't come across any stats in this list other than the black border 1:10 statistic. Knowing odds of the very unique 1/1 and 1/25 stuff would indicate that we likely know the entire production run numbers.
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A little backstory based on my observations collecting cards as a kid:
In the late 80's / early 90's, baseball cards (and sports cards overall) skyrocketed in popularity, which led to the period known as the "inflationary period" where the companies, to keep up with demand, printed themselves out of business. The way they took advantage of their customers by over-saturating the market, along with a players strike which cut one of the seasons short, essentially killed the entire hobby of baseball card collecting (from a mainstream point of view) after the mid 90's.
Fast forward to 2018, the card companies that have managed to survive should understand very well the issues of "hyperinflation". And they seem to be rewarding their remaining loyal customers at this point with more special inserts, along with lower mintages to keep pace with demand. From what I understand reading the baseball card posts on reddit and elsewhere, the Allen and Ginter stuff is not very popular overall within the baseball card collectors, so it's a niche series within a niche hobby. Although the sports card collecting market seems to be on the rebound overall. It makes sense why A&G would take risks like this to bring in more collectors from different communities, especially by looking to something like cryptos which would attract the younger millennial baseball fans. We will see how this all plays out, and I expect to see fully private-key-loaded baseball cards coming in 2019 or 2020. This might be the beginning of something big, hence the reason I've put some effort to documenting it.
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Okay I told myself I wasn't going to do any more raffles ....but this is hard to resist. Will watch to see how fast it fills up.
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One of the Silver Glossy cards just sold   |
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