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TIL to date the most expensive NFL trading card ever sold is a 2017 Panini National Treasures Platinum #161 Patrick Mahomes II (Kansas City Chiefs) NFL Shield Rookie Autograph 1/1 which fetched $4.3 million in a private sale in July 2021.

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