Josh Allen, LeBron James, Wayne Gretzky Card Sales Smash Records at Fanatics Collect Auction

A trio of trading cards featuring LeBron James, Josh Allen and Wayne Gretzky sold for more than a combined $3 million at a Fanatics Collect auction on Friday.

The Allen card, a 1/1 Gold NFL Shield Patch Autograph, had the highest sale price in the group at $1.35 million. He is one of five NFL players ever to have a trading card sell for at least $1 million. It also became the most expensive NFL card sold that has been produced within the last five years.

The 2025 Topps Chrome Superfractor LeBron James 1/1 autograph card was sold for $1.26 million.

Gretzky's card, which sold for $540,000, was a 1979 O-Pee-Chee rookie card with his autograph that received a Mint PSA 9 grade for the card, while the signature was given a 10-grade.

Fanatics noted Gretzky's card is the most expensive autographed hockey card ever sold. It's the second-most expensive hockey and Gretzky card of all-time.

The only hockey card that sold for a higher price was a different version of the same Gretzky 1979 O-Pee-Chee rookie card, but it had a Gem Mint 10 grade from Professional Sports Authenticator and went for $3.75 million in 2021.

More recently, there was a sealed case of the O-Pee-Chee Hockey wax boxes from the 1979-80 season with the Gretzky card in it that sold for $2.52 million in December 2024.

James has now had at least 26 cards sell for at least $1 million after this most recent auction. The most expensive of his cards that has ever been sold was the 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Basketball rookie card that went for $5.2 million in 2021.