The 1952 Mantle Topps card sells for $ 5.2 million

It’s time to get mad at your grandparents for throwing away their baseball cards.

A rare, new quality Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $ 5.2 million on Thursday, according to PWCC Marketplace.

The price broke the previous mark of the highest price paid for a card, which was a single card autographed by Mike Trout that sold for $ 3.9 million.

The Mantle Card was purchased by actor Rob Gough, who called it the Mona Lisa of collectible cards. The Mantle card is the flagship of the Topps set from 1952, the first year of the bubble gum company printing baseball cards. Previously, this exact card, rated PSA 9 on a scale of 1 to 10, was selling for $ 2.8 million when former NFL lineman Evan Mathis sold it to an unknown buyer in 2018. On think there are only six copies of a PSA 9 Mantle ’52 Topps in existence.

Considered to be THE card that sparked the card collecting craze, there is a legendary story that thousands of cases of Topps cards from 1952 were thrown into the ocean in 1960.