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1957 Topps #77 Bill Russell RC

Set
Topps
Year
1957
Sport
Basketball
Era
Vintage
Grades on record
12
Verified sales
21

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 11 grades from a named grading company, across 2 grading companies (PSA, SGC). Across those, the two ends sit 7.4× apart: SGC 2 at $2,777 against PSA 6.5 at $20,578. Which one is the price depends on which slab is in your hand.

Notes on the file

Written from the record above. Every figure quoted here is one of the figures in the ladder; anything that could not be traced back to a verified sale was cut rather than corrected.

Most-traded gradePSA 4 · $4,800 · 3 verified sales

What this card is

The 1957 Topps #77 Bill Russell card is his rookie card, issued in Topps' 1957 basketball set. It documents Russell's entry into the trading card hobby and is recognized as a key vintage basketball rookie issue. Graded and ungraded copies have both traded in the collectibles market.

Longest-standing figurePSA 4.5 · $6,000 · last sold 30 NOV 2025

The set it came from

The card is part of the 1957 Topps set, card number 77, which included Bill Russell among its rookie-year subjects. Beyond the card number and year, no further set-level details (such as total set size) are available in the source data.

Spread across graded copiesSGC 2 $2,777 → PSA 6.5 $20,578 · 7.4×

Why the grades diverge

Sales data includes copies graded by PSA (grades ranging from PSA 1 to PSA 6.5) and SGC (SGC 2 and SGC 2.5), as well as ungraded copies. No population or census figures are available.

Most recent verified salePSA 2 · $2,250 · 03 JUL 2026

What the record shows

The data shows a clear premium for higher numeric grades, with the widest sale gap occurring between ungraded and PSA 6-and-above copies.

On the record4 questions the archive can answer
What card is the 1957 Topps #77 Bill Russell?
It is Bill Russell's rookie card, card number 77 in the 1957 Topps basketball set.
What is the highest recorded sale price for this card?
A PSA 6.5 copy sold for $20,577.99 on 2025-12-21, the highest realized sale in the available data.
What grades have sold for this card?
Recorded sales include PSA grades from PSA 1 to PSA 6.5, SGC 2 and SGC 2.5, and ungraded copies.
Is the 1957 Topps #77 Bill Russell considered a rookie card?
Yes, it is identified as Bill Russell's rookie card (RC) from the 1957 Topps set.
Where each graded copy sits — log scale8 priced grades
$2,777 SGC 2PSA 6.5 $20,578

The grade ladder

Every grade this card has a priced record in — nothing withheld — kept apart by grading company because a PSA 10 and a CGC 10 are different assets. 3 figures are marked disputed and should not be read as this card's price at that grade.

1957 Topps #77 Bill Russell RC — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
GradeValueLast verified sale Realized rangeSold / comps DepthBasis
PSA — graded 9 grades · 13 verified sales
6.5 $20,578 21 DEC 2025 $20,578 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
6 $10,065 04 APR 2026 $10,065 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
4.5 $6,000 30 NOV 2025 $6,000 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $4,800 29 MAR 2026 $3,040 – $4,800 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
3.5 $3,716disputed: Priced below PSA 3, a lower grade from the same company 04 MAR 2026 $3,716 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
3 $4,007 24 MAY 2026 $4,007 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $2,250disputed: Priced below PSA 1, a lower grade from the same company 03 JUL 2026 $2,250 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $2,778disputed: Priced below PSA 1, a lower grade from the same company 19 APR 2026 $2,778 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $2,875 09 APR 2026 $1,182 – $2,875 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
SGC — graded 2 grades · 2 verified sales
2.5 $4,350 28 DEC 2025 $4,350 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $2,777 22 FEB 2026 $2,777 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 6 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw $150 24 MAY 2026 $85 – $4,608 6 realized sales of 6 comps thin last comp · sold

How these numbers are made

Source
FLOAT's own verified-comp archive. A comp is a realized sale only when it settled as an auction, a fixed-price purchase or an accepted offer; marketplace asks and price-guide columns are counted separately as quotes and can never stand in for a sale.
This file
21 verified sales across 12 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 07 AUG 2026.
Recency
Each grade shows the date of its own most recent verified sale. There is no refresh clock on this page and there will not be one: a graded card of this kind changes hands roughly twice a year, so a ticking counter would imply motion this market does not have.
Missing figures
A grade with no verified sale says so and shows no date. Nothing on this page is estimated, extrapolated or filled in from a comparable card.
Which grade is yours
Read the row for the company on your slab. The grade number alone is not enough — the same number from two companies is two different assets and trades accordingly.
Reading a row
"Value" is what the archive resolves that grade to; last comp means it is simply the most recent realized sale, carried forward. "Depth" is how much recent trade stands behind it — thin means fewer than three sales in the window, which is most of this market.
Disputed figures
A row marked disputed contradicts another row on this page: a grade priced below a lower grade from the same grading company, or an ungraded copy priced at or above a graded one. Both figures cannot be right and the archive does not say which is wrong, so neither is deleted and the less credible side carries the mark. Removing the row would hide the conflict rather than resolve it; 3 of the 12 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.