Kobe Bryant

1996 Ultra Gold Medallion Kobe Bryant #G-266 value & prices

Kobe Bryant #G-266 from 1996 1996 Ultra Gold Medallion is a card collectors search for regularly. Current market value sits near $60.00 for an ungraded copy.

Graded copies command a clear premium — an ungraded copy is worth around $60.00, a PSA 9 around $311.83, a PSA 10 (Gem Mint) around $1,754.13, a pristine BGS 10 around $2 and280.00. That's roughly a 29× premium for a gem-mint copy over raw — one of the clearest signals that condition-sensitive buyers dominate this card's market.

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About this card's market

Cards from this era were printed in enormous quantities during the hobby's boom years, so raw copies are plentiful — but strict grading separates the true gems from the masses, and top grades remain hard to pull off.

Basketball cards have been one of the hobby's strongest categories, with rookie cards and flagship sets like Prizm leading demand.

Is it worth grading?

With raw copies near $60.00 and top grades reaching $1,754.13, grading a sharp copy of this card can clearly pay for itself — the spread comfortably covers a typical ~$25.00 grading fee. The catch: only submit copies with strong centering, clean corners, and unmarked surfaces, because anything below a 9 usually erases the math.

When choosing a grader, PSA slabs typically resell fastest, BGS rewards truly pristine copies, and SGC/CGC offer faster turnarounds — compare each label's value in the grade table above.

How to buy this card

The fastest way to gauge the real market for this card is to scan the live eBay listings above: look at the spread between auction and Buy-It-Now prices, and check sold history before paying top dollar.

If you own this card, scan it with Ripbin to add it to your locker — you'll see its value tracked over time, and other collectors can discover it and send bids.