Trading cards are one of the most popular collectible items in modern history. These cards are mainly a set of cards, connected through a common theme or series, which are collected, traded and sold to other collectors. However, when the trading of cards stuck in the mind of people, generally they think about the sports cards. These types of cards usually have prints of photos and stats of the famous professional athletes in various sports such as hockey, football, basketball, and baseball, to name a few. Previous years have shown the interest of people in non-sports trading cards, usually featuring pop-culture themes from movies, television or music.
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While sports cards have remained the mainstay of trading cards in the previous decades they have seen the rising of pop-culture card series. Anyone who grew up in 1980s-1990s will know the trading card series such as Pokemon, Magic: The gathering, Uh-Gi-Oh! etc.
Collecting and trading these cards are one of the most popular hobbies in the United States. Like the most of collectibles, how much any particular trading card is worth largely depends on their quality and mint condition. The mint conditioned cards are virtually those cards which have no flaws, no creases, no any bend corner, nor any obvious signs of damage and distress. Things that can move away the cards from their mint condition are soft corners, tears, creases, writing on the cards, or any serious damage like worn corners.
There are countless of storage and protective items like plastic sleeves that keep your Pokemon, pop-culture theme cards and other similar trading cards in the mint condition. These plastic sleeves are available in multitudes of sizes and colors, choose anyone depending on your taste and preference. For long term and regular use, you can give multi-layer protection to your cards with these sleeves. In order to price your cards, card value guides are also available for the most common collectible series. Moreover, you'll also love to play anytime when your