The Story Behind the $12.6 Million Dollar '52 Topps Mickey Mantle SGC 9.5!

This is the story of the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle SGC 9.5 that sold for $12.6 Million Dollars by Heritage Auctions.
This is an excerpt rom the Trading Card Therapy podcast (ep. 86) hosted by Leighton Sheldon of Just Collect, Inc.
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[@halfcenturycollectingcards]

great interview!

[@stuke1976]

Great video! Love what he said about the hobby giving people JOY during Covid. Video takes me back to my road trips with Mr Mint.

[@LorenAnderson30]

A generational card. 1952 Topps Mantle, regardless of age, is a card everyone in the hobby knows about and wants to be a part of. It symbolizes baseball card collecting and why it is special.

[@Swoop187OG187]

Vintage cards like this are almost surreal, not specifically because of the grade per se but because of the condition.. Every now and again I'll come across a 70+ year-old vintage card that's so fresh and crispy - if not for your own knowledge and experience - you would otherwise think it was a counterfeit or a convincing reprint printed just 10 minutes ago.. I don't know what it is (perhaps the environment +) but some cards can defy natural aging somehow.. Not that a little bit of patina will affect a pristine vintage cards overall grade, but look - 99.9% of cards are going to age naturally - I mean you can take a gem mint paper card from today and place it on a shelf - not touch it for 50 years - then come back and that card is going to show natural aging despite not being touched for 5 decades and this specimen seems to be in that rare group..

[@KeyKiller74]

I want to buy king Mick tomb case

[@oddthomas6325]

Whoa

[@victorfrankenstein50202]

Gosh, if I only had the money (which I certainly do not), I gladly would have bid $12,600,001 for that gorgeous Mantle card.

[@JacksonKing-l3h]

I have this card in a case screwed in it's worth that much

[@niakeeladodds9435]

Hi

[@michaelpiccinini1391]

I like sgc more than PSA, but I'm wondering why you chose sgc over PSA. It's not right but postwar PSA cards sell for much higher prices. This card in a PSA 10 probably would have sold for 5 million dollars more. The set registry guys would have paid 20 million for this card