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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Looking at CLOSED auctions on EBay over the past month:

There are 68 individual coins that sold for $13,000 or more...

while there were only 12 individual baseball cards that sold for $13,000 or more.

Wow!!

(This INCLUDES all of the big items in Sotheby's for baseball cards, and all of the big items in Heritage for coins.)




Baseball had the THREE HIGHEST spots, however, with the California League Old Judge card at $100k, the "quad-autographed cuts" card at $85k, and the E107 Wagner at $80k.

After that, however, the next highest baseball card was a 1952 Mantle at $30,000.




The highest individual coins were at $78k, $70k and $68k... but there were at least another 25 coins that sold for MORE than the $30k 1952 Mantle.




This supports what Scott B. was saying about the abundance of high-priced coins out there.