1952 Mantle Topps card sells for $5.2 million

It’s time to get mad at your grandparents for throwing out their baseball playing cards.

A uncommon mint-graded Mickey Mantle baseball card bought for $5.2 million on Thursday, in keeping with PWCC Marketplace.

The value shattered the earlier mark for the very best value paid for a card, which had been a certainly one of a form Mike Trout autographed card that bought for $3.9 million.

The Mantle card was purchased by actor Rob Gough, who known as it the Mona Lisa of buying and selling playing cards. The Mantle card is the signature merchandise within the 1952 Topps set, the bubble-gum firm’s first yr printing baseball playing cards. Previously, this actual card, graded a PSA 9 on a 1-10 scale, went for $2.8 million when former NFL lineman Evan Mathis bought it to an unknown purchaser in 2018. It is believed that there are solely six copies of a PSA 9 Mantle ’52 Topps in existence.

Considered THE card that ignited the card-collecting craze, there’s a legendary story that 1000’s of circumstances of 1952 Topps playing cards had been dumped within the ocean in 1960.