Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament Black Luster Soldier (stainless steel, 1999)

Maker: Konami
Year: 1999
Rank: 87 of 100

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament Black Luster Soldier (stainless steel, 1999)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament Black Luster Soldier (stainless steel, 1999) by Konami (1999) is ranked 87 in the FLOAT 100 for Trading cards. It carried a market asking price of $10,000,000 on 30 August 2013, which is not a sale. The rarest, most valuable Yu-Gi-Oh! card; a unique 7-figure prize card.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

The rarest, most valuable Yu-Gi-Oh! card; a unique 7-figure prize card.

1999 Tournament Black Luster Soldier (1-of-1 stainless-steel prize card)

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure: $10,000,000
Kind: Market asking price, not a sale
Date: 30 August 2013

Asking price, not a realized sale. The one-of-a-kind stainless-steel 1999 Tournament Black Luster Soldier was listed on the Japanese dealer marketplace CardCollectors.jp at 998,000,000 yen, reported by Kotaku 2013-08-30; Kotaku's own contemporaneous conversion in the article is '998 million yen ($10 million)', and that stated USD figure is used rather than independent arithmetic. No auction-house record exists at Heritage, Goldin, REA, SCP or Mile High, and PSA APR has no entry for the steel prize card. The widely repeated '$2 million in 2013' claim was deliberately NOT used: Wargamer states plainly that it 'does not seem to have a verifiable source attached'. Treat as a 13-year-old seller ask on the exact 1-of-1 card, not a current level.

This is not a sale. It is what the market was asking, and no transaction is recorded behind it. Source.

How this is made

The figure: One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not: A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder: Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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