$100,000 Card

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by rats60

It will be a modern basketball card. There are a number of low print run Michael Jordan cards (10 or less) that haven't come up for sale in a long time. One of those could easily pass 100K. The other possibility is the 03/04 Exquisite Lebron James RPA /99 if one legitimately comes up for sale in high grade. There is some debate about if it would actually hit 100k. A BGS 9.5 of the Exquisite RPA /23 sold for 95K in 2015. That one would bring over 100K if sold today.

If there are 99 of them why would it sell so high and why do you say "if...legitimately" is there some controversy about this card?

[TUM301]

I`ve got one word for you son, PLASTICS.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by TUM301

I`ve got one word for you son, PLASTICS.

Nope. I invest in cardboard futures.


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[Sean]

Originally Posted by TUM301

I`ve got one word for you son, PLASTICS.

Exactly how do you mean that, sir?

[BLongley]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If there are 99 of them why would it sell so high and why do you say "if...legitimately" is there some controversy about this card?

Quite a few seem to have been cleaned up by a professional trimmer and then regraded...mostly by BGS and they have missed the trim and provided higher grades. The trims can be determined based on the matching serial numbers and finding prior sales... similar to the t206 auto scam...

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If there are 99 of them why would it sell so high and why do you say "if...legitimately" is there some controversy about this card?

There hasn't been a verifiable sale in years, just rumors of sales. For a card with 99 copies that just doesn't make sense. You would think that one would come to a reputable auction house at some point. The card is believed to at least be worth in the high 5 figures.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by rats60

There hasn't been a verifiable sale in years, just rumors of sales. For a card with 99 copies that just doesn't make sense. You would think that one would come to a reputable auction house at some point. The card is believed to at least be worth in the high 5 figures.

Maybe someone early on hoarded them somehow? Maybe they weren't all released? Intriguing anyhow.

[Goudey77]

I am convinced most of the modern basketball insert rarities are hiding in closets. Forgotten by most and gone unknown to the original owner. Should be interesting to see these come out the woodwork

[PiratesWS1979]

1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold Jeter PSA 10.

With three Mirror Blue PSA 9's crossing $10K recently, one should easily cross $100K maybe even $150K.

[brass_rat]

Originally Posted by Goudey77

I am convinced most of the modern basketball insert rarities are hiding in closets. Forgotten by most and gone unknown to the original owner. Should be interesting to see these come out the woodwork

For these metal cards, does anybody have knowledge of what they were selling for when they were initially released? (ie, distribution, pack costs, insert values on secondary market)

[ToddW.]

Wasn't the Franco - went for ONLY $60k - $100k.

https://www.beckett.com/news/2019-bo...tor-autograph/

[Throttlesteer]

There's just something wrong with a single-A ballplayer's card selling for more than some of the greatest Hall of Famers ever to play the game. I can understand Trout or even Yelich. But a top prospect that may never do a thing in MLB?

I can't imagine anyone on here would rather have that Franco than a high grade Ruth or Cobb.