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1999 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems /50

I'm so excited to knock off one big one from the "Buy It When I See It" list. My first Larkin PMG!!!

These cards are gorgeous in hand. I had always thought I preferred the 1998 PMG, and I still think they are beautiful, but these shine in a very unique way. Not the bold molten gold of a 96 Mirror Gold, or the pristine smoothness of a Crusade, or the crystal clear reflection of a Limited Exposure, but a gritty shimmer that gives the feeling that something magical lurks just below the surface. I can't stop looking at it.

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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5 (Post 2515435)

All player cards between #131 and 200 have been accounted for although some players do not have all 3 color parallels.

Barry Larkin has all 3. I was fortunate enough that a dealer in a facebook group I'm in acquired the whole Larkin set and posted them all for sale at once. I snapped them up as soon as I saw the post.

Great score! Now all you need is as many of the variants as you can get of the other 69 players.

:)

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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5 (Post 2526413)

1999 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems /50

I'm so excited to knock off one big one from the "Buy It When I See It" list. My first Larkin PMG!!!

Actually even the base Metal Universe cards are wild cool!

Wanted to post about this auction sale from Goldin's of a 1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Barry Larkin. It came up for discussion in the Barry Larkin Facebook group, and the comment was that this is the highest priced Larkin card in a public sale. $7500 hammer price, but with buyers premium it comes to $9150. (sorry about the crappy photo. click the link for a better image)

1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems #180 Barry Larkin (#20/50) - PSA NM-MT 8 on Goldin Auctions https://share.google/kej1msTmoacUPauDE

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Originally Posted by todeen (Post 2528980)

I bowed out quite early on that one. While it is at the top of my want list, it sold for $1300 in 2023 and $3000, also in 2023. That is not a $9k card. Something crazy is happening with the PMG market. I'm concerned that the pumpers from the basketball PMG market are branching over to baseball and setting massive comps for these cards to try to flip them for astronomical prices. I was (not)coincidentally offered a PSA 8 98 PMG the very next day after this auction ended in a private sale. The asking price? 12k!!! I would just about guarantee this is the same card and the buyer is just trying to flip it. Little do they realize that if you are outbidding all the Larkin collectors out there, we aren't going to be buying it for more than it ended at. If I passed at $9k (heck, I would have passed at $5k), then I sure as heck am not going to pay $12k for it. The Larkin market is strong, but we are a small group. This card is likely to bounce around between PMG investors for quite some time because no one wants to take a loss and get it into the hands of a collector. I just hope the other cards on my want list don't end up being infiltrated by the basketball investor market before I get them. Prices are already ridiculously high enough.

/rant ;)

Back to my regularly scheduled search for a reasonably priced 98 PMG.