Lewis Hamilton super-fan earns £719,000 by selling rare F1 merchandise on Netflix show
‘King 🌃of Collectibles: the Goldin Touch’ is a series where people buy and sell r🐲are or unusual items, sometimes for huge prices.
Jean-Nicolas Gagnon, a 16-year-old from🍎 Canada, is featured because he owns the on༺ly 2020 Topps Chrome F1 Superfractor 1/1 Lewis Hamilton card in the world, report.
He acquired the card by chance, by buying a regular $50🐼 (£40) pack.
Hamilton has signed the super-rare card, tꦛhe s♐how says, which dramatically increased its value.
The owner and his father were informed that a private buyer wanted to 💦purchase the collector’s item for $750,000 (£599,000).
card. — Goldin (@GoldinCo)But a new buyer, Armando Gutierrez, theဣn enters the show and makeꦇs the owners a new offer - which they accepted.
The sale was later disclosed as $900,0ꦛ00 (£718,623).
It is an all-time record for an F1 card.
"I'm your favo🔯uriteไ son," Jean-Nicolas told his dad.
James was a sports journa🍌list at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
