A rare LeBron James rookie card sold for nearly $2M at auction. 🤑
rookie card sold for $1.845 million over the weekend at a Goldin Auctions sale.
It set a record for being the most expensive modern-era trading card – meaning anything from 1980 or newer. The previous record for a modern-era card was aThe James rookie card was from Upper Deck’s 2003-04 “Exquisite Collection” and received a 9.5 score on the Beckett Grading Scale which is to say it’s considered to be a nearly flawless piece.“The incomparable superstar has penned a vivid blue ink signature on the obverse of this ultra-premium collectible.
There was a total of 34 bids in a 26-day span, according to Goldin Auctions, with the minimum bid set at $150,000. The winning bid went to Leore Avidar, the CEO and cofounder of Lob.com who describes himself on his Twitter profile as a “professional collector, flipper and negotiator of random things.”
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