[Bestdj777]

Don, that is a beautiful card.

Junk, I agree with Matt and others sentiments. There has been a huge uptick in pricing on low grade 52 Mantles over the last couple of years. When I purchased my first (I believe it was four years ago), you could get a terrible beater in the $2,000-3,000 range. There was an example with the letters "PE" in pen on the front that I believe changed hands for around $2800. I wish I could have gone back and picked that up but at the time the ink was a turn off.

Just last year, I start shopping again for another low grade Mantle and picked up the other variation. At that time, the beaters I had seen for sale three years ago were now $3000 plus cards. Anything that was not shredded was a $4000 card and people would not let go of anything really decent looking for less than $5000. I ended up picking up an "Authentic" example for a decent price as that was the best eye appeal I could find for the money. That was still a pretty pricey card though.