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Six-figure sales happen with vintage football greats' Rookie Cards, too

Six-figure sales happen with vintage football greats' Rookie Cards, too

This entry was posted on March 3, 2017 by BlowoutBuzz.

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The high-dollar auctions aren't just for high-grade Mickey Mantle cards.

While "The Mick" has dominated the auction block in recent years -- and did so again last weekend via Heritage Auctions -- there were two six-figure NFL sales of note in that Heritage sale, too.

And they weren't alone as a number of graded football cards topped the $10,000 mark.

Leading the way was this PSA 9 copy of Jim Brown's 1958 Topps Rookie Card, which has four brethren in the same grade but a PSA 10 does not exist. This card? It sold for $336,000. The other six-figure Rookie Card was the PSA 9 Bart Starr 1957 Topps card up top that sold for $288,000. It's one of three PSA 9s and, again, a PSA 10 does not exist.

The big sale -- one that totaled more than $12 million in all for the weekend -- also included a $48,000 Peyton Manning PSA 10 1998 Playoff Contenders Rookie Card (pop 52), a second-year Brown card, a second Starr RC and Topps debuts for Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas and Paul Hornung to name a few. You can see a number of them -- and what they sold for -- in the gallery below.

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: $336,000

: $288,000

: $48,000

: $33,600

: $28,800

: $28,800

: $12,000

: $11,400

: $10,305.60

: $8,400

: $7,800

: $7,200

This entry was posted in Auction Buzz, Football and tagged BGS, Donruss/Playoff, Joe Namath, Peyton Manning, PSA, Topps, Upper Deck, 1957 Topps, 1958 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1981 Topps, 1998 Playoff Contenders, 1998 SP Authentic, Bart Starr, Heritage Auctions, Jim Brown, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Paul Hornung on March 3, 2017 by BlowoutBuzz. ← Previous Post Next Post →

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