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This list of items as of August 20, 2021 is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1]This list includes only the highest price paid for a given card and does not include separate entries for individual copies of the same card or multiple sales prices for the same copy of a card.
The T206 Wagner is the most valuable baseball card in existence, and even damaged examples are valued at $100,000 or more. [1] This is in part because of Wagner's place among baseball's immortals, as he was an original Hall of Fame inductee.
In 2016, a cache of 7 T206 Ty Cobb baseball cards were discovered in a paper bag when a family was cleaning out their deceased great-grandfather's home. [7] These cards were nicknamed the "Lucky 7" [2] and brought the total number of known T206 Ty Cobb's in existence to 22. [6] The cards were authenticated and initially valued at around $1 ...
1909 T206 Honus Wagner Baseball Card with PSA grade EX 5-MC. Many of the remaining T206 Honus Wagner cards in existence have rated low on the PSA grading scale. Only three existing Wagner cards received a PSA rating of EX [5] or better. One such example is known in the industry as the 'Jumbo Wagner' [shown on the right].
According to cardboardconnection.com, as of 2015, it is estimated that less than 60 of the T206 Honus Wagner cards still exist. By last count, there were 57 known examples. [15] In 2021, a T206 Wagner card was sold in a private sale for $7.5 million, a record amount for a sports card. [16] [15] Another famous one, from 1911, is Joe Tinker. [17 ...
The T206 name (originally issued in 1909-11 by the American Tobacco Company) has been revived by Topps (under the "Topps 206" brand) a total three times, the first in 2002 with a second revival in 2010. [6] Again in 2020, the company released a new collection divided into five different series, with the first (50 cards) being released in May ...
The value of a trading card depends on a combination of the card's condition, the subject's popularity, and the scarcity of the card. In some cases, especially with older cards that preceded the advent of card collecting as a widespread hobby, they have become collectors' items of considerable value. In recent years, many sports cards have not ...
Its scarcity, even at the time, combined with Wagner's reputation as one of the greatest players in baseball history, made it the most valuable sports card of all time, with one pristine specimen yielding $6.61 million (equivalent to $7.43 million in 2023) [24] at auction. [25] It has been characterized as the "Holy Grail" of baseball cards. [26]