A Mickey Mantle card sold for 12.6M$

A Mickey Mantle card sold for $12.6 million recently, becoming the record for the amount paid to acquire a sports memorabilia item.

The 1952 Topps card surpassed Honus Wagner‘s T206, which went for $7.25 million earlier this month.

Mantle’s is just as valuable thanks to its current condition, according to Heritage’s director of sports auctions, Chris Ivy.

Via ESPN, Ivy said it is quite possibly the finest example of perfect condition of this iconic postwar card in the world. She’s squarely in a category of her own.

Recall that Mantle was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and died of liver cancer in 1995. He concluded his career with a total of 536 home runs in 18 seasons.