There are a number of Cardsmiths Currency subreddits. What makes r/CurrencyCards special? This sub is run by and for collectors of Cardsmiths Currency cards. We are not affiliated with the company, and we are fanatical about cultivating our main page to showcase the best of Currency cards and the community that has grown up around them. Our moderators are active on the site, and we enforce our community’s rules. 

In addition to foregrounding how unique and wonderful Currency cards are in the non-sports non-TCG trading card category, our subreddit connects collectors with broader interests besides. Every morning, our Automod spawns a new DAILY megathread, pinned to the top of the main page, which provides a space to chat and advertise other things including card shows, sales, deals, steals, and even pictures of our cats (we hope!). 

Tips

Help us to create an awesome card collecting community!

  • Create high quality posts about collecting, trading, and buying/selling Currency cards. 
  • Be generous with upvotes! The more people know that their contributions are welcome and appreciated, the better they’ll feel about making those contributions, and the more motivated people will be to make great posts. Upvote any post and comment that you feel makes a positive contribution; don’t be shy!   
  • Familiarize yourself with the rules. The subreddit rules are listed in the Community Info section of the sub. Rule #1 is Be Respectful. We also have rules about self-promotion, relevance, raffles, etc. 
  • Report rule violations! The mods try to read everything on the subreddit, but some things might slip past us. If you see anything that you think is a violation of our rules, report it to the mod team. If we judge that the contribution does violate the rules, we’ll remove it; if we judge that it doesn’t, no harm no foul. 

And, here is aguide to the rest of the subreddit:

Collectors focus: the Main Page  

Show off your Currency collection, seek trades or (Reddit-based) sales, do a card battle, ask a question, run a giveaway, …

Posts that primarily direct members to 3rd party sites for personal monetization (Rule 4), that are primarily oriented around things other than Currency Cards (by community consensus, this excludes Space; Rule 3), low quality/low effort (Rule 2), or which are found to be in violation of any other community rules, will be removed at mod discretion. 

Other Cardsmiths products can be highlighted on our sister subreddit, r/CardsmithsCards. 

Connecting collectors: the DAILY

The subreddit rules on self-promotion and relevance are relaxed in the DAILY. All collector, trader, and seller chatter is welcome. You might be surprised what your fellow members are interested in!

  • Promote (and follow up on) on your Whatnot, YouTube, TikTok, X, … shows, or those of your friends
  • Advertise your Ebay or Spotify shop, or other sellers or products you think others might be interested
  • Make a quick sales pitch with crappy photos
  • Talk about things that interest you other than Currency cards—other Cardsmiths products, vintage cards you’ve discovered, House of Roulx shows—whatever you want to share, whatever you think others in the community might be interested in. 

We want to see you at r/CurrencyCards every day!

Resources for collectors 

The subreddit has a ton of resources for collectors, whether you’ve been here awhile or are just starting out. 

Trade flair

User flairs are used to implement a mechanism of community trust. Any trades or purchases that have been coordinated or completed through the subreddit can be confirmed, and your account’s number of confirmed trade flairs updated. 

  • View the trade confirmation megathread (also pinned to the main page)
  • How it works: One side or the other makes a comment on that megathread indicating what was traded for what and calls the other member by their handle (e.g., u/sylvan-yo). The other member replies confirming the trade. Then, one of our mods will further confirm, and increment each of your trade counts by one. 
  • Porting flair: In many cases, our mods will be happy to port your confirmed trade flairs from other Currency community subreddits. Porting flair is at the mod’s discretion. 

Collector flair

There are many collecting accomplishments that our mod team is happy to record in your trade flair…

  • Have you collected a complete master set (that is: all the cards on the official checklist) for any Currency set? Ping a mod to get the appropriate book flair 📕📗📘📙
  • Have you collected a complete rainbow of some card (that is: all of the available gemstone varieties for a particular card)? Ping a mod to get the rainbow flair 🌈
  • Have you collected a gemstone set of any Currency series (that is, every numbered card in one of the gemstone varieties)? Ping a mod to get the appropriate gemstone set, for example beryl 🔸, silver 🪙, jade 🐲, etc. 
  • What have we missed?

Checklists 

We try to keep official and fillable checklist information up to date in our “Community Guide”/”Community Bookmarks".

  • Official Checklists are the company-provided lists that indicate what counts for the full set, artist info, etc. You can find these under “Official Checklists”. All official checklists through Series 4 are also contained in this post [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/CurrencyCards/comments/1jij22v/cardsmiths_currency_trading_cards_official/); anything missing can usually be found on the Cardsmiths website under the appropriate product name, by scrolling through the pictures. 
  • Collectors’ Checklists are images generated from spreadsheets that have blanks for you to fill in the cards you have/need that can be used for trade posts. Ping a mod if you’d like access to a copy of the spreadsheets used to generate these images so you can create your own version. 

Packaging & Shipping 

Generally speaking, unless you’re shipping a common base card, Currency community members ship their cards with the following protections: penny sleeve + top-loader + team bag + ding defenders + inner bag/bubble wrap + bubble mailer. 

A typical package like this will weigh under 3 ounces and ship with USPS Ground Advantage ($100 insured + tracking included) for less than $5, if your shipping label is purchased through [Click’n’Ship](https://www.usps.com/ship/online-shipping.htm). 

Middleman/proxy service 

Generally speaking, new traders (those with <10 trade confirmation) should expect to be asked to ship their cards first before their more experienced traders ship their cards / pay for the cards. Those collectors, or even experienced ones, might reasonably worried about shipping cards/cash if the cards are of particularly high value. 

The mod team at r/CurrencyCards provides a detailed plan of action for one of our mods to act as a middleman or proxy for such trades.

Any questions? Feel free to ask in the comments or ping an r/CurrencyCards moderator 🤗

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