How to Know the Value of a Football Card

Determine the condition of the of the football card. The collectible football card industry has a scale for determining the condition of given card. The better the condition the more valuable it is. There are services that certify the condition of a card, but it should suffice just to take the card to a local collectibles shop. The shop owner or manager can give an estimate of the cards condition.

Ascertain what year the card is from and what point in the players' career the card is from. The older the card is the more valuable it is. In addition, rookie cards are the most expensive cards from a player's collection. Cards after the rookie year are not as valuable.

Establish if the particular player on the football card was a star in the sport. The more storied a players career was the more the card is worth. Players that are in the football Hall of Fame are the most valuable.

Learn the relative scarcity of the given football card. Cards that were limited editions are worth more than those in regular sets. The few the amount of football card there are of that particular type and year the more valuable they are.

Check a pricing guide for football cards. The pricing guide will give a collector an idea of what the value of card is. However, sports collectibles engender an emotional attachment in some people who are fans of the particular player. This emotional attachment can alter the value of a football card.

Check Internet auction site that sell collectibles and search for the particular football card. The auctions will determine the best price in the open market, even more so than pricing guides will.