Cards · 9 November 2026
On a $660,000 slab, the card and the label passed. The holder is the claim in dispute..
Dexerto reported on 3 November 2026 that a collector who runs a cert-check app paid more than $660,000, through an intermediary, for a 2011 Call of Legends Shiny Rayquaza graded PSA 10. He says the card is genuine and the label is genuine, and that the fugitive ink on the label does not match the ink on PSA slabs already in his collection. Fugitive ink is a security ink PSA has printed on the front and back of its labels since 2017. It dissolves when the label meets a solvent, so a genuine label cannot be washed and reprinted. Pregrade's roundup of 7 November said PSA had not commented and that no cert number had been published. Slab Watch, an independent tracker, lists the case as unconfirmed, beside an October report that a 2002 Expedition Dragonite graded PSA 10, sold at Fanatics Collect for $288,000, carries the same cert number as a card another collector says is still in his possession. That report is also unconfirmed, and the marketplace says it is looking into it. The two claims arrived in the hobby's largest month on record. Card Ladder counted more than $1.07 billion of card sales across more than 9.2 million transactions in October 2026, the first month above $1 billion, Sports Illustrated reported on 2 November. Pregrade, citing GemRate, put October grading at 3.87 million cards excluding Beckett, 2.79 million of them at PSA. PSA's own backlog tracker read 6.8 million units on 3 November, down from 7.2 million on 20 October, and PSA said the fall slowed because submissions rose after it reopened its Value tier, which Pregrade dates to 29 October at $39.99 a card.