Off the Charts: What the $3.75 Million Gretzky RC Sale Means…And What Might Come Next
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No one saw this coming. A PSA 10 Gem Mint copy of Wayne Gretzky’s 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Rookie Card (#18) has set a new record for the highest price paid for a hockey card at $3.75 million. The card changed hands in a private sale brokered by Heritage Auctions in May. The previous mark of $1.29 million had been established five months earlier when a different copy of the card, one of just two in existence to earn a Gem Mint 10 grade from PSA, sold in a December 2019 Heritage Auctions event. That sale drew national media attention as…
