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1952 TOPPS MICKEY MANTLE JUST SET A GRADE RECORD!
A PSA 4 copy of the iconic 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle sold for $244,000 at Goldin on October 8, setting a new high for that specific grade! The sale attracted 59 bids and surpassed the previous reported PSA 4 record of $222,000 from September 25.
One important distinction: this is a grade-specific record, not an overall record for the card. Still, that’s a massive price for a card graded a 4!
It’s a great reminder that scarcity in this hobby isn’t always about serial numbers or print runs. With vintage cards, condition rarity, historical significance, and eye appeal can make a huge difference.
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For it being a 4 that is still pretty cool! Vintage are so hard to grade
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Absolutely! A 4 on a vintage card can still be a great piece, especially when you consider how tough it is to find these cards with decent eye appeal after all these years. Sometimes the card itself matters a whole lot more than the number on the slab!
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i agree.. i mean some of those players cards graded even lower still fetch a chunk of money. makes me wonder if todays players cards will be like that when they are considered vintage by a new era
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thts is crazyyyy the only mantle i owned was from the 2025 reprint /25 and it graded a 9 cnt imagine a 1952 in a 4
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Yeah, aside from garage sales and estate finds, I don’t think we’ll see the level of scarcity for a non-artificially created scarce card. Nobody is paying money for a 2026 base card in 40 years. It’s cool that the popularity of the hobby has increased that much, but sort of sad because none of us is likely to ever really find that needle in our haystack of bulk.
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that is true.. i mean we could have that if topps and the others purposely did that for a bit. stop over printing and do a little grass roots printing and give that feel they had back in the day. rack packs and well not saying sell cards with cigarettes like they use to or used them to advertise that. but yeah for sure we are not looking at base cards like we use too. now its all the numbered and variations and the autos and so forth
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Yeah, I think they could maybe accomplish more by just reducing the number of variations and just have the base set and one or two types of variants and see what happens. But maybe that’s just the 90’s kid in me that experienced when that was a thing in the junk wax era. Still not likely to make collecting exciting in that same way.
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i feel ya.. i mean even back then sometimes you didnt even know you had a sp or ssp. then find out it is and its more valuable. and some rookie cards didnt even say rc on them
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oh that is true and with vintage its more of the not many copys or certain cards have survived or been held on to in those conditions.. theres alot of really messed up ones that dont grade or probably a 1 but i feel even those would sell for thousands. We for sure do mass produce to much now unless its the numbered or parralles which they didnt really have back then.. its was mostly base and rc cards and some unique cards. Obviously we know with cards who the player is does really play the importance in things in the hobby.
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I do wish I had more of these really old cards. I’ve got some late 60’s and 70’s Raiders cards that I should just send in to grade. The problem with most of those is that they’re PC so it’s expensive to grade something I’m not planning on selling anyways.
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thats why id look into some other graders like debree or tag or something.. degree isnt that bad on price. and they recently add where you can pic your color or colors of your label.
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