With the recent $12.6 million sale of the record-setting SGC 9.5 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, Alan “Mr.Mint” Rosen's name was back at the forefront of the hobby again.
The card was part of his 1985 Massachusetts find of many beautiful, well-conditioned 1952 Topps Baseball cards. There were a reported 42 Mantles in the lot and the aforementioned card was the finest example proclaimed by Rosen himself.
Rosen was what we would call