Collectors ToolsHow much money the graded ticket market spends each month
$7,615,680 was spent on graded tickets in the 12 months to June 2026, against $3,630,456 the year before. The chart below tracks every month back to 2020 and updates itself as new results land.
Graded ticket market volume
Every PSA-graded ticket sold at Heritage, Goldin and Fanatics Collect, by month. Toggle between money spent and tickets sold.
View the monthly figures
| Month | Money spent | Tickets sold |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | $1,016,844 | 238 |
| Jul 2026 | $477,973 | 310 |
| Jun 2026 | $545,617 | 504 |
| May 2026 | $866,941 | 665 |
| Apr 2026 | $536,509 | 570 |
| Mar 2026 | $1,302,558 | 486 |
| Feb 2026 | $465,505 | 624 |
| Jan 2026 | $328,154 | 549 |
| Dec 2025 | $1,562,433 | 462 |
| Nov 2025 | $370,563 | 499 |
| Oct 2025 | $861,763 | 708 |
| Sep 2025 | $522,321 | 407 |
| Aug 2025 | $1,484,530 | 675 |
| Jul 2025 | $153,286 | 386 |
| Jun 2025 | $505,470 | 451 |
| May 2025 | $388,448 | 735 |
| Apr 2025 | $209,477 | 429 |
| Mar 2025 | $308,990 | 524 |
| Feb 2025 | $511,487 | 402 |
| Jan 2025 | $153,434 | 238 |
| Dec 2024 | $530,490 | 464 |
| Nov 2024 | $269,473 | 264 |
| Oct 2024 | $336,477 | 378 |
| Sep 2024 | $280,609 | 271 |
| Aug 2024 | $1,094,166 | 382 |
| Jul 2024 | $115,581 | 219 |
| Jun 2024 | $222,782 | 357 |
| May 2024 | $328,999 | 387 |
| Apr 2024 | $146,997 | 315 |
| Mar 2024 | $387,578 | 415 |
| Feb 2024 | $343,365 | 314 |
| Jan 2024 | $289,959 | 339 |
| Dec 2023 | $323,686 | 270 |
| Nov 2023 | $429,233 | 337 |
| Oct 2023 | $266,940 | 327 |
| Sep 2023 | $227,656 | 344 |
| Aug 2023 | $1,017,876 | 373 |
| Jul 2023 | $177,140 | 223 |
| Jun 2023 | $226,225 | 269 |
| May 2023 | $680,687 | 305 |
| Apr 2023 | $138,137 | 230 |
| Mar 2023 | $289,885 | 241 |
| Feb 2023 | $424,517 | 264 |
| Jan 2023 | $186,765 | 238 |
| Dec 2022 | $201,208 | 233 |
| Nov 2022 | $641,468 | 398 |
| Oct 2022 | $159,633 | 210 |
| Sep 2022 | $367,099 | 294 |
| Aug 2022 | $1,229,420 | 380 |
| Jul 2022 | $600,246 | 685 |
| Jun 2022 | $594,124 | 371 |
| May 2022 | $1,483,434 | 495 |
| Apr 2022 | $489,961 | 139 |
| Mar 2022 | $582,449 | 337 |
| Feb 2022 | $3,190,682 | 255 |
| Jan 2022 | $639,638 | 226 |
| Dec 2021 | $179,137 | 115 |
| Nov 2021 | $708,730 | 118 |
| Oct 2021 | $268,578 | 87 |
| Sep 2021 | $40,709 | 46 |
| Aug 2021 | $455,866 | 105 |
| Jul 2021 | $60,910 | 44 |
| Jun 2021 | $83,357 | 98 |
| May 2021 | $356,592 | 103 |
| Apr 2021 | $135,675 | 95 |
| Mar 2021 | $177,538 | 107 |
| Feb 2021 | $169,970 | 142 |
| Jan 2021 | $59,343 | 67 |
| Dec 2020 | $140,538 | 84 |
| Nov 2020 | $26,614 | 45 |
| Oct 2020 | $14,357 | 48 |
| Sep 2020 | $66,509 | 69 |
| Aug 2020 | $124,506 | 68 |
| Jul 2020 | $91,087 | 53 |
| Jun 2020 | $14,496 | 49 |
| May 2020 | $169,499 | 106 |
| Apr 2020 | $18,868 | 46 |
| Mar 2020 | $9,402 | 51 |
| Feb 2020 | $204,403 | 140 |
| Jan 2020 | $12,826 | 62 |
Complete months only. The running month is left out because it is always partial. Switch the measure to tickets sold to see lot count instead of money, and pull the range back to January 2020.
Every figure here comes from the 14,703 graded ticket sales we hold between January 2020 and June 2026, worth $27,810,808 together, compiled from the auction houses we track. Volume is the sum of what every graded ticket sold for in that month. The chart is not a snapshot: it reads the same archive behind our sold auction records, so it redraws itself as results come in.
The money doubled, the typical ticket did not
3,480 graded tickets sold in the 12 months to June 2026, against 2,805 in the 12 before it. That is 24% more tickets. The money spent on them rose 110%. Both numbers describe the same market, and the gap between them is the finding: the average sale went from $1,294 to $2,188, while the median went only from $288 to $330. Half of every graded ticket sold still goes for under $330. The growth is concentrated at the top of the market, not spread across it.
| Measure | Jul 2024 to Jun 2025 | Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Money spent | Jul 2024 to Jun 2025$3,630,456 | Jul 2025 to Jun 2026$7,615,680 | Change+110% |
| Tickets sold | Jul 2024 to Jun 20252,805 | Jul 2025 to Jun 20263,480 | Change+24% |
| Median sale | Jul 2024 to Jun 2025$288 | Jul 2025 to Jun 2026$330 | Change+15% |
| Average sale | Jul 2024 to Jun 2025$1,294 | Jul 2025 to Jun 2026$2,188 | Change+69% |
| Sales over $10,000 | Jul 2024 to Jun 202557 | Jul 2025 to Jun 2026109 | Change+91% |
| Sales over $100,000 | Jul 2024 to Jun 20252 | Jul 2025 to Jun 202611 | Change+450% |
One lot can make a month
February 2022 is still the tallest month on the chart at $2,846,838, and two lots in a single Heritage session on 27 February account for $948,000 of it, a third of the month. One was the 1947 Jackie Robinson debut stub in PSA 2 at $480,000, the other the 1984 Michael Jordan debut full ticket at $468,000, catalogued as the only known example. Neither is a market movement. Both are one object changing hands.
This is why the line has teeth instead of a curve. A few hundred graded tickets sell in a normal month, so a single six-figure lot moves the total more than everything else combined. Read the peaks as individual tickets, not as months when the whole market got busy. The Tickets sold view on the chart is the check: February 2022 saw 169 lots, fewer than an average month in 2026.
| Month | Money spent | Lots | Biggest lot that month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2022 | Money spent$2,846,838 | Lots169 | Biggest lot that monthJackie Robinson debut stub, PSA 2, $480,000 |
| Dec 2025 | Money spent$1,449,294 | Lots240 | Biggest lot that monthJackie Robinson debut stub, $366,000 |
| Aug 2025 | Money spent$1,256,488 | Lots350 | Biggest lot that monthMichael Jordan debut stub, PSA 8, $280,600 |
| Mar 2026 | Money spent$1,181,850 | Lots230 | Biggest lot that monthLou Gehrig "Luckiest Man" stub, $280,600 |
| May 2022 | Money spent$1,132,825 | Lots386 | Biggest lot that monthMickey Mantle debut stub, $90,000 |
| Aug 2024 | Money spent$1,023,770 | Lots265 | Biggest lot that monthJackie Robinson debut stub, PSA 1.5, $324,000 |
Where the money in the graded ticket market actually sits
Of the 3,480 tickets sold in the 12 months to June 2026, 109 went for $10,000 or more. Those 109 lots carry $4,818,562, which is 63% of every dollar spent in the year, off 3% of the lots. At the other end, 2,686 lots sold under $1,000. They are 77% of everything that changed hands and 10% of the money.
Narrow it further and the point sharpens. The ten most expensive sales of the year total $2,163,060, 28% of the money from 0.3% of the lots. A year earlier the top ten were 23% of a much smaller pot. So the market is not only bigger, it is more top-heavy than it was, and a monthly volume figure is closer to a reading of how many trophy tickets came to auction than of how many collectors were buying.
What the chart is useful for
Three things it answers directly. Whether this month was busy in money or in lots, which the measure toggle separates. Whether a run of quiet months is a slowdown or just an absence of headline lots, which the 12-month view against the 5-year view settles. And what a normal month actually looks like now, which is roughly 290 tickets and $630,000, against 41 tickets and $64,000 a month in 2020.
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