Goldin Auctions closed out its three day “Elite” auction with the sale of a 2017 Patrick Mahomes Prizm Gold Vinyl rookie card for $570,000. Numbered 4/5, the card was graded PSA 10. That came a day after the 2020 National Treasures Joe Burrow NFL Shield 1/1 sold for $534,000.
The auction’s first session closed Saturday night with three lots netting seven figure prices.
In all, the three-day event totaled $45 million, making it the second largest auction in the company’s history.
PSA’s backlog currently stands at just over six million cards. At its zenith last year, the total number of cards waiting to be graded stood between 12.5 and 13 million cards, according to company president Steve Sloan. PSA graders are currently working through about 200,000 cards per week after the firm increased its staff, space and efficiency last year.
Some submissions that arrived at the company’s facility almost a year ago are still being processed. They hope to have the backlog cleared by late summer or early fall.
PSA still plans to bring back at least one lower cost service level to the general public at some point this year.
Panini will release a “premium” version of its 2021-22 Hoops Basketball set via factory set on Wednesday morning.
A total of 199 numbered sets will be sold via a descending bid format, opening at $4,000. Each set includes all 270 base cards from the regular Hoops set, done on high quality stock as well as an autographed card featuring a current or former stars.
The list of autographs that will be possible includes:
- Luka Doncic
- Shaquille O’Neal
- Bill Russell
- Anthony Davis
- Allen Iverson
- Karl Malone
- Larry Bird
- John Stockton
- Ja Morant
- Oscar Robertson
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Anthony Edwards
- Trae Young
- CJ McCollum
- Jamal Murray
- Magic Johnson
- Rasheed Wallace
- Karl-Anthony Towns
- Stephen Curry
- Dirk Nowitzki
Customers will decide the price they want to pay as the price drops every few minutes. When all 199 sets have been purchased, the auction will stop.
eBay says sales of Tom Brady rookie cards, which had been spiking since rumors of his retirement began to surface, more than doubled on the day he made it official last Tuesday.
Would you spend over $400,000 on a card of a 19-year-old prospect with fewer than 50 games under his belt? How about a high-end Zion Williamson? Both cards sold for big bucks via Goldin Auctions over the weekend.
One collector/investor believes in both players enough to toss down some serious money and Action Network’s Darren Rovell chatted with him.
Live stream platform Whatnot is giving away Super Bowl tickets and hosting box breaks with some NFL players participating at times. Deebo Samuel and David Njoku were among the players scheduled to appear on Thursday from Los Angeles. Trevor Lawrence is dropping by on Friday at 7 PM Eastern and Cassius Marsh at 11 PM Saturday.
The Super Bowl tickets are being given away on Wednesday and Thursday with special break events taking place through Saturday.
Whatnot is available on Android or iOS.
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