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Mickey Mantle 1952 card fetches $765,000

“Are you out of your mind?”

In an auction preview of the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA Mint 9 card in April 2018, Heritage Auctions predicted that at some point the winning bidder would be greeted by someone with these words.

Heritage Auctions then went on to justify six- or seven-figure price tags, saying, “In its simplest, unsentimental terms, an elite collectible such as

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