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The Luke Skywalker Card Worth $687,000 and the Week in Tech With Kris Abel

Star Wars trading cards were fun in 1977. One of them just sold at auction for $687,500. The seller did not have the Canadian bilingual version with nicks.

Kris Abel has the Luke Skywalker card, the first in the 1977 Topps series. His is the Canadian edition, printed with both English and French text, and has seen better days. The pristine American version that just cleared nearly seven hundred thousand dollars looks almost identical to his. The difference, he estimates, comes out to about $686,500.

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