A rare one-of-one gold patch autograph shattered records, netting three lucky siblings life-changing money and marking it the most expensive sale in Buffalo Bills hobby history.
Do you think trading cards are worth millions?
Josh Allen is a desired man both by TV networks for games and, apparently, by trading card collectors.
According to Topps, a 1-of-1 Gold NFL Shield Autograph card of Josh Allen sold for $1.35 million. It became the most expensive Allen card of all time and the most expensive Buffalo Bills trading card ever.
The Athletic reports that a grandmother in Mesa, Arizona waited at a card shop for an hour to purchase a box of 2025 Topps Chrome Football cards that were released that day.
Her grandchildren---a 15-year-old, 12-year-old, and 10-year-old---found the redemption card in the box.
What makes the Gold NFL Shield Autograph cards so special is what they represent. Each NFL award winner from 2024 wore gold NFL logo patches on their jerseys in 2025. Some of those patches were then used to create the cards that the players then signed.
The auction reached 41 bids on Topps website, and the money from the sale will be split between the three grandchildren.
The card marks the first million-dollar sale of a football card in three years. The most recent sale was an autographed Tom Brady rookie card that sold for $1.2 million in 2023.
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Before this latest auction, the previous best-selling Allen card came in 2022. That was a Panini National Treasures rookie patch autograph card that was labeled 1 of 10. It sold for $288,000.
Only four other players in NFL history have had cards sell for at least $1 million. Those players include Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, and Joe Burrow.
Speaking of Brady, 21 of his trading cards have sold for more than $1 million. It's, by far, the most in NFL history.
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