https://www.pwccmarketplace.com/items/2228732 Special Bidding Rules: This auction will remain open to public bidding until the final 24 hours. After that time, only bidders who have previously bid and been approved or have requested prior approval will be permitted to bid. Please contact us to be added to the approved list or place a bid and we will review and add your ID if approved. Special Financing Offer: PWCC Marketplace is offering the high bidder 90 days free financing, if desired. This requires a 25% down payment with the balance due at the close of 90 days. Additional time is available through our standard PWCC Payment Plan service, and this could be engaged at the close of the first 90 days. Please contact PWCC Staff for more details. Description: Incredible offering! Feast your eyes upon this once in a life time offering of arguably the most important Kobe Bryant card ever produced, his '97 Metal Universe PMG Green/Emerald parallel. If you're lucky you might see this card once in your life, let alone have the chance to acquire it. Even the most novice of trading card enthusiasts understand the extreme rarity and fragility of this card. The Precious Metal Gems were available as foil base parallels in the '97-98 Metal Universe Basketball production. Limited to 100 total copies per player with the first ten cards being green and the final 90 red. Given the extreme rarity of green parallels and the fact that they lie so close to many collector's hearts, they simply don't surface on the open market, especially when it features a global super star in Kobe Bryant. Condition on these cards don't matter much as they're widely considered fine-art equivalents worthy of a museum. Offered here is the final card from the 'green' production, the number 10/10 copy. This example possesses many attributes of an EXMT to NRMT example with sharp corners and modest chipping to the top, left and bottom edges. The highly fragile surfaces are void of nearly all imperfections with only some very light wear present to the left of Kobe's knees. Be advised that this card was previously submitted to BGS for grading where it received an 'Authentic/Altered' assessment. Upon review the right edge may be very lightly trimmed, and this is the only thing we can discern to justify the BGS assessment. Within the early stages of Kobe's NBA career and as Michael Jordan's career waned, Kobe was dubbed as Jordan's 'Air-Apparent' with his ability to dazzle fans with his acrobatic dunks and possessing the ability to completely take over the game. Oh boy, did he live up to the hype! Kobe Bryant's statistics are out of this world having won five championships, an MVP, four scoring titles and now being fourth on the all-time scoring leaders list. Perhaps what's more important than these stats is the fact that he's the only player to have a 20-year career with one team. This team is unquestionably the most popular NBA franchise in the world in the Los Angeles Lakers. Throughout Kobe's tenure in Los Angeles he unified the city on many occasions while showcasing his 'Mamba Mentality'. In conclusion, the '97 PMG Green Kobe Bryant is way more than just a trading card from the nineties. It's a symbol of his incredible talent and unique desire to be the best in the world. A world-class offering which commands global attention. Please see the video highlight for more details on this offering. One of over 15,000 cards, lots and sets up for bid in our 3rd Auction of 2020. Click on the link above to view the other PWCC auction lots.