Valuable Beer Cans

Often when someone is new to collecting beer cans, or anything for that matter, they want to know what is most valuable. Most collectors who are passionate about their beer can collection will tell you they are all valuable.

Collecting truly is a passion for most, and not a business venture. Different cans from varying time periods or locations have individual values to people. Some monetary, some emotional or sentimental.

This Busch beer tab top test can  sold for $430.00 on eBay!

With vintage beer cans, there are so many out there it's tough to place a title as "most valuable" for these. Even in strictly a money sense, cans go up and down in value according to supply and demand.

Supply and demand go up and down for who knows why! It's one of the crazy, unpredictable and fun givens when it comes to collecting.

Of course, there are some very valuable cone top and flat top beer cans out there that are rare to start with and in pristine condition too. Those I suppose could be placed in the top 10% most valuable beer cans.

This Krueger  Flat Top w/ Opening Instructions ran somebody a cool  $735

But truly the value of beer cans is totally dependent on the relationship  between the person selling and person buying. If you've got what he wants, and a trade is in order, how do you place a value on that?

I think the most valuable beer cans are those that make up a set for a collector. It doesn't have to be a series type of set, but rather what the collector considers a set. If this collector wants every type of can with every flaw from the beginning of the brewery, then even some of the not so rare cans will be valuable to him when discovered, even if the seller deems it to have little value.

This super clean Metz Malt Liquor Flat Top was valued at $430.00 according to the highest bidder. There were 21 bids.

I always try to upgrade my cans. I have a relatively small collection of about 500 cans, but my cans are all in order and in very good condition. I know what I have and when I find a can in better shape than the one I have, I buy it and sell the old one.

Often, believe it or not, I pay less for the new one than the one I end up selling! And from a collectors point of view, the new one will always be a better addition, and should bring in more money, but it doesn't always work that way with what most people would consider valuable beer cans.