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A 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card has smashed all records by selling for the highest auction price ever of $12.6 million.
The rare rookie card was graded as a minty 9.5 in condition by sports memorabilia grader SGC and only sold for $50,000 in 1991 by top collector Alan Rosen, according to the New York Post.
The final price zoomed past the estimated $10 million that the auction house estimated.
In a letter included in the sale, Rosen wrote that the card was “in my estimation the finest known example in the world” with only the “slightest evidence of paper toning.
