What are the 10 most valuable cards?

What cards are worth the most money?

The current record price is the US$12.6 million paid for a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311) on August 28, 2022, breaking all previous records.

What kind of cards are worth money?

What are the most expensive PSA 10 cards?

The most expensive Pokémon card is the Pikachu Illustrator which sold for $5.275 million in July 2021. It's the true Holy Grail of Pokémon card collecting and only one PSA 10 is known to exist.

What is the rarest card in history?

The Shichifukujin Dragon, created to celebrate the opening of the DCI Tournament Center in Tokyo, Japan, is also the only one of its kind in existence. In Japanese mythology, 'Shichifukujin' is the name given to the Seven Deities of Good Fortune.

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What baseball card sold for millions?

Earlier this month, a rare, authenticated Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card changed hands for $7.25 million in a private sale. It was the most expensive trading card sold until the Mantle auction on Sunday. The previous record was set in April 2021 by another Wagner T-206 card, which sold for $6.6 million.

How many PSA 10 exist?

The 1961 Topps Baseball set has a gem rate of just 0.3%, making PSA 10s rare despite the large population (just 1,024 total PSA 10s). The most popular and highest graded card in the set is the #300 Mickey Mantle, which received just 2 gems out of 8,321 cards submitted.

What is the rarest PSA card?

Pikachu Illustrator

The Illustrator card, given out to 39 winners of the 1997 and 1998 Pokémon illustration contests, is extremely rare. Only 23 have been certified by the PSA, and only one has been given a PSA rating of 10.

What is the rarest PSA?

2005 Umbreon Gold Star Holo

The highest PSA grade one of these has ever received is a 9.5, making it extremely rare to find one in top condition.

How do you tell if a card is worth a lot?

Head to PSAcard.com/auctionprices and search for your card. The more refined the query, the more accurate the results. It is best to include the year, manufacturer and subject of your card in your search. If you include the card number, expect All-Star results.

What cards are vintage?

Vintage, originally known as Type 1 or Type I, is an eternal format that allows for the use of almost all printed cards, save Acorn cards and/or having a non-Standard Magic back (other than Double-Faced Card/Meld Card), as well as certain cards banned for causing problems in sanctioned tournaments.

Are Bo Jackson cards worth anything?

Overall about 1618 Cards of Bo Jackson have been traded in the last 30 days on ebay. The average price was $26.96. The price range was from $0.25 for 1990 Score #566 Bo Jackson by Score from 1990 to $987.77 for 1987 Leaf #35 Bo Jackson PSA 10 by Leaf from 1987.

What are the hottest sports cards to buy right now?

Hottest Sports Card and Trading Card Hobby Boxes Guide

2022 Topps Gold Label Baseball leads the way for the best-selling Hobby boxes list this week. The other top sellers are 2023 Topps Series 1 Baseball (2nd), 2022 Panini Obsidian Football (3rd) and 2022-23 Panini Prizm Premier League Soccer (4th).

What PSA grade is worth buying?

A PSA Gem Mint 10 card is a virtually perfect card. Attributes include four perfectly sharp corners, sharp focus and full original gloss. A PSA Gem Mint 10 card must be free of staining of any kind, but an allowance may be made for a slight printing imperfection, if it doesn't impair the overall appeal of the card.

How much money do you need to get a card PSA graded?

PSA grading costs range anywhere from $22 per card all the way up to $10,000 per card, depending on the value of the card, the age of the card, how many cards you're submitting at one time, how fast you want the turnaround to be, and other factors.

Is getting a card PSA worth it?

Regardless if you're talking counterfeits or reprints, PSA card grading services can be an excellent tool to verify a card's authenticity. That's not to say that PSA is correct 100% of the time and fakes don't occasionally slip through their hands.

How hard is it to get a 10 PSA?

For a card to earn a 10, the edges of a card must be flawless to the naked eye and virtually perfect when looked at under magnification. The final criteria looked at by card graders is the surface of the card. A card's surface is susceptible to loss of glossiness, wax stains, scratching, and printing defects.

How much value does a PSA 10 add to a card?

Compared to raw cards, the PSA 10 sells for about 7x more. That's a big difference! Comparatively, the BGS 9.5 only sells for about 3.5x as much. PSA 9s are worth 2x as much as the raw card.

How do I know if my card is pop 1?

What does POP mean in cards? POP is short for “population,” and is used to reference the scarcity of graded cards or how many there are in existence. For instance, a POP 1 PSA 10 card would mean it's the only one in existence. a POP 18 would mean there are 18, and so on.

What do secret rare cards look like?

A Secret Rare has a rainbow-colored foil that's applied to the artwork, card name, Attribute, and Level. Each Starlight Rare has a horizontal, lattice or grid-like holographic pattern applied over the majority of the card face, including the card border.

What playing cards are rare?

How do you know if a card is legendary?

Legendary cards are indicated by an orange gem located at the bottom-center of the card's art, and when opening card packs will display an orange glow when moused over. Legendary cards are obtained from card packs less frequently than any other rarity.

What baseball sold $3 million?

The record price for a home run ball is $3 million. Someone was willing to pay that much for Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball in the 1998 MLB season.

What baseball card sells for $10 million?

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card became the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia to be sold at auction, notching $12.6 million early Sunday morning. The card, issued by the collectible company Topps in 1952, features Mantle, the most powerful switch-hitter in baseball history.