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1979 O-Pee-Chee #18 Wayne Gretzky RC

Set
O-Pee-Chee
Year
1979
Sport
Hockey
Era
Vintage
Grades on record
13
Verified sales
20

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 12 grades from a named grading company, across 2 grading companies (KSA, PSA). Across those, the two ends sit 7.3× apart: KSA 2 at $721 against KSA 8.5 at $5,289. 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 · $1,695 · 4 verified sales

What this card is

The 1979 O-Pee-Chee #18 is Wayne Gretzky's rookie card, issued during his first NHL season. It is one of the most recognized hockey rookie cards from that era. Realized sales for the card span a wide range of grades and prices.

Longest-standing figureKSA 6 · $1,453 · last sold 25 JUN 2026

The set it came from

O-Pee-Chee produced hockey cards for the Canadian market during this period, issued alongside the Topps hockey release in the United States. The 1979 set included rookie cards for players entering the NHL that season, among them Gretzky at card number 18.

Spread across graded copiesKSA 2 $721 → KSA 8.5 $5,289 · 7.3×

Why the grades diverge

Professionally graded copies exist across a range of conditions, with verified sales spanning PSA 1 through PSA 5 and KSA 2 through KSA 8.5. No population or registry data is available for this card.

Most recent verified saleKSA 8.5 · $5,289 · 23 JUL 2026

What the record shows

Realized sales for this card vary widely by grade. Recorded sales span June 25, 2026 through July 23, 2026.

On the record3 questions the archive can answer
What is the 1979 O-Pee-Chee #18 Wayne Gretzky card?
It is Wayne Gretzky's rookie card from the 1979 O-Pee-Chee hockey set, card number 18.
What grades have sold for this card?
Verified sales include PSA grades from 1 to 5 and KSA grades from 2 to 8.5, along with ungraded copies.
What is the highest recorded sale for this card?
The highest recorded sale in the verified-comp archive is $9,999, for an ungraded copy sold on 2026-07-22.
Where each graded copy sits — log scale10 priced grades
$721 KSA 2KSA 8.5 $5,289

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. 2 figures are marked disputed and should not be read as this card's price at that grade.

1979 O-Pee-Chee #18 Wayne Gretzky RC — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
GradeValueLast verified sale Realized rangeSold / comps DepthBasis
KSA — graded 6 grades · 8 verified sales
8.5 $5,289 23 JUL 2026 $5,289 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
8 $3,138 16 JUL 2026 $3,138 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
7.5 $2,175 16 JUL 2026 $2,175 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
6 $1,453 25 JUN 2026 $1,453 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $1,026 23 JUL 2026 $764 – $1,074 3 realized sales of 3 comps moderate wtd median · sold
2 $721 02 JUL 2026 $721 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
PSA — graded 6 grades · 9 verified sales
5 $2,487 21 JUL 2026 $2,487 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $1,695 02 JUL 2026 $1,177 – $1,832 4 realized sales of 4 comps moderate wtd median · sold
3.5 $1,353disputed: Priced below PSA 3, a lower grade from the same company 16 JUL 2026 $1,353 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
3 $1,500 22 JUL 2026 $1,500 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $790disputed: Priced below PSA 1, a lower grade from the same company 25 JUN 2026 $790 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $812 09 JUL 2026 $812 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 3 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw $611 23 JUL 2026 $570 – $9,999 3 realized sales of 3 comps moderate wtd median · 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
20 verified sales across 13 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; 2 of the 13 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.