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Originally Posted by Bored5000
Always happy to see this thread get bumped.
I was watching that Petty card, but had not looked to see where it finished. That price is shocking. Even beyond the hammer price, there were four bidders above $1,577 and three above $2,200. 
I wish I had kept all my Petty STPs. At one time, I had three of them. But I sold two of them on here for under $200, which was a fair price at the time. I get it that it is Richard Petty, but I did not see this type of explosion coming in his rookie card. Auctions for 1972 STP cards seem pretty few and far between these days. |
A PSA 6 sold in Goldin in 2021, which generally is considered the peak of insanity, for under 1000. I do not get it at all. Pent up demand maybe? There was a defect in his hair too.
I have two of them (only 4s) and I always joked with people that it was the 52 Mantle of miscellaneous sports but maybe there is something to that.
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