For more than a year now, Clark’s rarest cards have achieved progressively higher values, repeatedly setting new records for both her cards and any women’s basketball card. The last record high came in December, when Clark’s 2024 Panini Select WNBA Gold Vinyl autograph rookie card, also a one-of-one, sold for $234,850. That was still short of the 2003 NetPro Serena Williams autograph patch card (featuring a piece of one of her match-worn tennis outfits in the card) that sold four years ago, though.
But on Saturday, Clark’s 2024 Panini Prizm WNBA Gold Vinyl 1/1 autograph rookie card became the new most valuable women’s sports card of all-time in convincing fashion.
Why did this specific Clark card sell for so much? Panini’s Prizm set is the exclusive WNBA trading card license holder’s most popular, so the rarest Clark autograph rookie card in that set was all but certain to become her most valuable one once it was pulled from a pack and put up for sale. The three previous highest selling Clark cards are all from Select, another of the three WNBA sets Panini released for 2024 that came out before Prizm.
Here’s an updated list of the five most expensive Clark cards to date:
2024 Panini Prizm WNBA Signatures Gold Vinyl (sold 3/29/25) — $366,000
2024 Panini Select WNBA Signatures Gold Vinyl (sold 12/7/24) — $234,850
2024 Panini Select WNBA Gold Vinyl Prizm (sold 2/22/25) — $105,326.26
2024 Panini Select WNBA Signatures Black Finite Prizm (sold 12/28/24) — $97,600
2024 Panini Instant Rookie of the Year Blue Viper autographed (sold 10/4/24) — $97,212.54
It’s not just Clark’s rarest cards that are in demand right now, though. Clark was one of the five most searched athletes on eBay across all sports, women’s or men’s, in February. And her base rookie cards from the Prizm and Select sets account for all of the top six most transacted basketball cards — again counting both women’s and men’s — between mid-February and mid-March according to Market Movers, which tracks card sales on online marketplaces.
Even with the WNBA deep into its offseason, Clark’s card remain some of the hottest in the hobby.
This article originally appeared in The Athletic.
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