The value of your football cards is very much dependant on the type of football (American football or soccer) and type of card that you hold. The best advice would be to check on a website such as ebay.com and look at the going rate of cards similar to the cards that you hold.
The website footballcardlots.com also offers a service for looking up the current prices of American football cards. Without knowing the specific cards that you hold it is difficult to give you a monetary value. However, the value of football cards can range from cost (the price at which it was bought; most common with newer football cards) to thousands of dollars depending on how rare that particular card is.
For example in 2008 a rare Bronco Nagurski American football card was sold for over $66,000, whilst a top notch Sammy Baugh American football card (from 1948-1950) is thought to be worth up to $500,000. Complete collections of football cards are potentially worth far more than individual cards as their value increases as a set. Generally speaking football cards tend to be worth more as they age. This is because older football cards are harder to come by, as most are lost, damaged or destroyed, leaving fewer in circulation to be bought or collected.
If your football cards are in good or 'mint' condition (meaning that they are in the same or similar condition to when they were first acquired) then you can expect the value to increase again, as collectors will be looking for the best, most authentic card. It is therefore a good idea to keep your football cards well stored and look after them, as they are far more likely to increase in value this way.
The website footballcardlots.com also offers a service for looking up the current prices of American football cards. Without knowing the specific cards that you hold it is difficult to give you a monetary value. However, the value of football cards can range from cost (the price at which it was bought; most common with newer football cards) to thousands of dollars depending on how rare that particular card is.
For example in 2008 a rare Bronco Nagurski American football card was sold for over $66,000, whilst a top notch Sammy Baugh American football card (from 1948-1950) is thought to be worth up to $500,000. Complete collections of football cards are potentially worth far more than individual cards as their value increases as a set. Generally speaking football cards tend to be worth more as they age. This is because older football cards are harder to come by, as most are lost, damaged or destroyed, leaving fewer in circulation to be bought or collected.
If your football cards are in good or 'mint' condition (meaning that they are in the same or similar condition to when they were first acquired) then you can expect the value to increase again, as collectors will be looking for the best, most authentic card. It is therefore a good idea to keep your football cards well stored and look after them, as they are far more likely to increase in value this way.
