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Approximately 1,100 Black Lotus cards were printed for Alpha, [1] 3,300 for Beta, [5] and over 18,000 for Unlimited. [3] In addition to the original, tournament-playable printings of Black Lotus, there are a few other promotional versions produced by Wizards of the Coast, that are not permitted in tournament play.
A Black Lotus card signed by Richard Garfield with a grade of 6 from Beckett was sold for $72,000. [2] As of March 2023 there are six alpha Black Lotus cards graded as PSA 10. [20] As of October 2014, there were 34 Beta Black Lotus cards rated PSA 10, [21] and As of December 2020 four rated BGS 10 and 57 rated BGS 9.5. [22]
The color distribution of the Power Nine is heavily skewed; six of the cards are Artifacts, while the other three are Blue cards. [17] In April 2016, an Alpha Black Lotus card graded as a 9.5 out of 10 was sold on eBay for $38,000; on February 27, 2019 a Black Lotus graded 9.5 out of 10 was sold in auction for $166,100. [19]
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The most expensive card that was in regular print, versus a promotional or special printing, is the Black Lotus, which are currently worth thousands of dollars. In 2019, an anonymous buyer purchased an unsigned "Pristine 9.5 grade" Beckett Grading Services-graded Alpha Black Lotus for a record $166,100. [200]
This list of items as of August 20, 2021 is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1]This list includes only the highest price paid for a given card and does not include separate entries for individual copies of the same card or multiple sales prices for the same copy of a card.
This caused some people to question the legitimacy of PSA as a 3rd party grading service. [1] In 2005, PSA Grader Bill Hughes, a grader of the T206 Honus Wager card, admitted in an interview with New York Daily News reporter Michael O'Keeffe that he knew the card had been trimmed when he graded the card. [3]