Gretzky Rookie card expected to fetch highest price ever for hockey card
If any card is going to break the record, it would make sense that it would include a photo of 'The Great One' Wayne Gretzky. A mint condition 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card is expected to become hockey's first $1-million (U.S.) collectible card, if all goes according to the plan of Heritage Auctions.
“We're really excited to have the king of hockey cards,” said Chris Ivy, Heritage's Dallas-based director of sports. “The timing is phenomenal as far as the people that are interested in this type of thing and the current market. And Gretzky is the greatest of all time for his sport."
The same consigner who is selling the O-Pee-Chee Gretzky card is also selling a Topps Gretzky rookie card. About a dozen others are up for grabs as well. It's the exact same photograph. But mint condition O-Pee-Chees are much harder to come by.
“All the 1979 O-Pee-Chee cards that have ever been graded, only two of them have ever earned 10 status, and this is one of those two,” Ivy said. “As compared to a Michael Jordan card, over 330 of those have achieved PSA 10 gem mint status.”
At the time of writing, the highest bid on the card was just under $700,000. You can click here to view the auction. Bidding will end on Thursday.
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