One of the four 1948 Bowman George Mikan rookie cards graded PSA Mint 9 sold on eBay Wednesday for a record $800,000.
That’s according to eBay. Through it’s PR firm, the company confirmed the sale was completed by longtime dealer Rick Probstein.
eBay wouldn’t provide any information regarding the buyer, the card’s provenance or even how long it had been for sale.
The price not only broke the old record for a 9 by more than $370,000, it nearly doubled the last selling price of a PSA 10 in December 2015.
One of the other three 9s sold in a Memory Lane auction last summer for $426,000. Another 9 sold for $320,000 in October of 2020. PSA has graded 23 Mikan rookies at the NM/MT 8 level and more than 370 overall. SGC has graded one Mikan rookie as a 9, with two at 8.5 and four 8s. Beckett has graded one 8.5 and one 8.
It’s the last in a long running string of record high prices for high-grade cards of sports icons. Just last month, a 2000 Contenders Rookie Championship Ticket Tom Brady Autograph graded BGS 8.5 (10 auto) sold for a $2.3 million, also through Probstein.
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