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Originally Posted by raulus
Upon further reflection, and looking at some of the historical results a bit closer now, I may have over-stated the pricing differential here, pre-pandemic at least.
For example, at PSA 8, the 1954 Mays pretty routinely sold for about $3k-$4k. Same grade for 1962 was around $3.5k to $5.5k. Still a premium, but probably closer to 20-30%.
I'm not entirely sure that you can necessarily explain it just based on pop counts and aesthetics. For better or worse, the market tends to take on a life of its own, and often the results aren't as explainable as we might like. I guess if we were really adventurous, we could go out and take short positions on the 62, and long positions on the 54 so as to arbitrage and drive the pricing to a relative spot where we think makes more sense. But in the process, we might lose our shirts!
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That's okay, I'll be happy with the '54 and '62 Mays cards I already have.
And sounds like you're agreeing with me, it is not the pop reports causing what seems to be a bit of a pricing anomaly for these two cards. We'll probably never know what could have caused such a big price differential between those two PSA 9 Mays cards in that last REA auction then?