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Originally Posted by AndrewJerome
Wrong idea in what way? Your last post showed a 4 for $90k. Clearly $100k for a 6 is a pipe dream. The card has exploded in value in all grades. Anything to the contrary is just wishful thinking.
Andrew
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Well said. What is key to hang a lantern on in this discussion is that in this day and age, we can no longer lump all cards in the same grade into the same price-zone. The premiums paid for eye appeal and centering— not just for this particular card but for many others in the hobby— make the prettiest examples totally unique animals with their own behavior when they hit the auction block.
As per the data below, if a nice 5 was 156k and a stronger one— though clearly not top end or perfectly centered— was 180k, then a truly perfectly centered 6 will hammer around 250k or higher. We will only know when and if such a specimen hits the block.
As I mentioned in a prior post, last year a PSA 3 with freakish A+ eye appeal went for $163,000. So it is paramount these days to examine the specific card in question. The old days of "all Grade X's costing Y" are over and gone. We can cherry pick a tilted, poorly centered, or poorly colored card and it may seem like prices are softening. We can cherry pick a gorgeous, lights-out centered card and yet that won't mean all cards in that grade are exploding.
These days, it all comes down to the specific, individual card and its unique combination of technical grade and eye appeal/centering. And frankly this collector thinks that is how it should be. The technical grade is but one component and opinion, and does not necessarily speak to beauty. And a great many buyers out there will pay for beauty to their eye over the grade.
