2000 Topps Chrome Allegiance Ken Griffey Jr. #TA20 Refractor

the card

notes

One hundred of these were printed. PSA has graded twenty-two of them, and exactly one is a PSA 10.

That combination is rare on this site. Almost every other card here has an unknown print run, so a population report tells you how many people paid to submit one and nothing about how many exist. This card carries its serial number on the back. The denominator is not an estimate.

So the arithmetic works the way people usually assume population reports do, and almost never can. Twenty-two of a hundred have been through PSA. Seventy-eight have not. Some of those are in binders, some are in a box in a loft, and some are gone - but the total was fixed in 2000 and nothing will add to it.

The card is from Allegiance, a twenty-card insert in 2000 Topps Chrome. Base cards and refractors were both exclusive to Series One hobby packs, and only the refractor is numbered.

Griffey is TA20, the last card in the insert, and he is the most graded of the nineteen refractors PSA has seen. Twenty-two against Derek Jeter's eighteen and Jim Thome's one. That is a fact about who collectors chase rather than about the cards, and on a set where every player had the same hundred copies printed it is a clean illustration of the difference.

The single PSA 10 has an unusual sales record for a card on this site, because there is only one of it and it has traded three times.

It made $834 on eBay in August 2020, $3,301 on eBay in April 2023, and $5,280 at Fanatics Collect in April 2026. Since PSA records one PSA 10 and no more, those are almost certainly the same physical card - up more than six times across five years and eight months.

Almost certainly is doing some work in that sentence. The sales do not publish certificate numbers, so the inference rests on the population report showing a single 10 throughout. If a second copy had been graded and sold in that window the picture would be different, and this page will say so if that turns out to be the case.

The rest of the population sits where the money mostly is. Thirteen are PSA 9, six are PSA 8, and one each at 7 and 6. Chrome from 2000 grades well, so a 9 here is an ordinary good copy rather than a near miss.

population

recorded 29 aug 2026. figures are a snapshot on that date, not a live count.

recorded sales

dated past results, not an estimate of what a copy is worth today. figures published by an auction house normally include the buyer's premium, so they are more than the seller received.

where to buy one

The PSA 10 is a population of one. If you want it you are waiting for a specific person to sell a specific card, and the last three times that happened the price went up.

PSA 9 is the practical target. Thirteen exist, they come up, and on a chrome card from 2000 the visual difference between a 9 and a 10 is small. The premium is not.

Below that the card is genuinely obtainable - six PSA 8s and two copies lower - and raw refractors turn up regularly since seventy-eight of the hundred have never been submitted.

That last number cuts both ways. It means supply exists that the population report does not show, so a run of new submissions could add several 9s and change what a 9 is worth. On a card with a fixed print run of a hundred, the graded population is the part that moves, not the total.

Check the back for the serial number. The base Allegiance card looks similar in a photograph and is not numbered, is far more common, and is worth a fraction. If a listing describes a refractor without showing the back, ask.

And check the insert. 2000 Topps Chrome ran several insert sets with different numbering prefixes. Allegiance is TA, and Griffey is TA20.

what to check before you buy

Look at the back first. A refractor is serial-numbered to 100 and the base card is not numbered at all. That is the difference between the two, and it is not visible from the front in a small photograph.

Check the surface at an angle. Chrome shows fine scratches that a flat scan hides, and on a card where most of the graded population is a 9 the surface is usually what separated it from a 10.

Check centring on both sides. Chrome stock is machine cut and generally good, which means the copies that miss are the ones that miss badly.

Expect edge chipping to be rare and treat it as a warning if you see it. This is not a card that was handled the way a 1948 Leaf was.

Verify the certificate number with PSA if you are buying the 10. There is one, and a second one appearing would be news rather than routine.

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