What was your favourite card you obtained in 2023?

Fav and why it was your fav of 2023

Massive year of selling non-KG cards to buy KG cards this year!


Sold my Luka Doncic Exquisite RC AU PSA 9 to buy the Gold Refractor PSA 10 jersey numbered below and sold a LaMelo Ball Immaculate RC AU to buy the 2003-04 Exquisite base PSA 8. I also traded a jersey numbered KG BGS 9.5 for a beautiful PSA 10 Flux Titans Gold Scope and obtained the 2007-08 Exquisite base and sent off to PSA (8)!


The Finest /25 is a big card for me though and takes the cake this year!






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3. Tie

Excellent thread and great start.

Very cool how you explained how you got to each card.

How many faves can we have? I think I bought too much. Gulp

drobfan8 said:

Excellent thread and great start.

Very cool how you explained how you got to each card.

How many faves can we have? I think I bought too much. Gulp

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Notice how I said fav card in the title then had a top 3 lol - same problem as you have I think - could have done 10 but tried to have self restraint

Great thread. 2023 for me has been a year of far more selling than buying, and most of my buying has been set chases. That said, here's my Top 3 of '23:

1. I've always got my eye out for nice Shaq Magic uniform cards, and I also collect the 2020-21 One & One Legends Gold set. When I saw this, I was hesitant to throw a bid on since it was already up towards my limit. But I did anyway and this thing just pops with the gold and the classic Orlando pinstripe uniform.



2. Obviously not basketball, but the 92-93 Beam Team is one of my favourite sets ever. So when I saw these UCL Chrome ones, I got interested in what a new take on them was like. This Haaland was a surprise find a day before the auction ended, so had to do a bit of retroactive selling afterwards, but the Black /10s look so good that I collect this set as well now.



3. Not much story here, but this was the first Zion Prizm RC I ever owned, and I only got it in June this year. The massive price drop meant I could consider it, and I got it for a great price with a last second bid. I love the blue shimmer actually - reminds me of the X-Cited insert from 94-95 E-motion.

I was trying to place where I’d seen that shimmer effect before but you nailed it with that X-cited reference for sure

92-93 Beam Team on a football (soccer) card is blowing my mind!

For NBA I recently pulled a Luka doncic presentations from a box that I treated myself to for christmas

For Christmas I bought 4 different Pro Set Owners Editions, 1989, 1990 Series 1 and 2 and 1991 Platinum
these were given to Owners or special people/players

Anyone get any mate additions to best of 2023 list?

Keeping to the theme of three cards and if I only include PC cards I actually have in hand I'd go with this trio.

I'm not sure I can pick only 3.

It's also tricky for me as probably the 2 biggest cards I added were LeBron's for set chases.

Stuff it. You can cop most of them.

Not too much buying this year due to the interest rate rises but wifey did get me a few for my birthday to slot straight into my PC.





Hopefully 2024 brings everyone lots of luck, health and happiness!