The bidding on a box of unopened hockey cards recently discovered by a Regina family has topped $2 million.
Rich Mueller of the Indiana-based website Sports Collectors Daily said the family’s discoveries are similar to holding a winning lottery ticket.
Last month, they unearthed a crate of 1979 O-Pee-Chee brand hockey cards. The company selling the box, Heritage Auctions, estimates there could be more than two dozen Wayne Gretzky rookie cards inside.
In mint condition, Gretzky rookie cards can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
The back side of the 1979 O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky rookie card. A Gretzky rookie card in poor shape is worth
