I bought my 2003 Topps Traded box and opened it last month from Baseball Card Exchange for just under 90 bucks. I just opened it, so this is one of the first boxes where I actually bought it right before I opened it. I’ve purchases a lot of boxes in advance and just waited until I got to that point in the blog to open it.
There are 10 packs, 35 cards per pack. The HTA box also has a box topper. In every HTA box, you get one Chrome Uncirculated X-fractor.
These cards are numbered out of 25. If you do the math, that means there are 6,875 boxes out there.
There is a little better rookie crop in this box, so it was pretty fun to open. I got one base card of the most notable rookie.
I got 10 gold cards in the box – one card per pack.
I got 20 regular Chrome cards, which is the 2 per pack you’re supposed to get. I got a Chrome version of the Cano card as well. Here are the 3 most notable guys out of those 20 Chrome cards.
I also got 3 Chrome Refractors, which is slightly beating the 1:4 odds a little better than what the odds say (you should get 2 per box). No Cano here – that would have helped defray the cost of the box!
You are supposed to get 1 relic or autograph per box – I got a relic in this case. This is a pretty nice relic of Andres Galarraga
Damaged cards weren’t a big problem, but I did have 7-8 cards that had corners that were dinged pretty badly. A couple of those were doubles, so I’m exactly 5 cards short of the set. I’ll take that any day after the luck I’ve had with the rest of the boxes!
Stats for the box:
- 10 packs per box * 35 cards per pack +1 box topper = 351 cards
- 41 doubles
275 of the 275 card set. (100% set completion – though 5 singles were damaged)
- 10 Topps Gold
- 20 Chrome
- 3 Chrome Refractors
- 1 Chrome Uncirculated X-fractor
- 1 Transacton Relic
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