My cheap Mantles
The first Mantle I ever bought was out of a junk box at a card show in Bossier, La. It was, like yours, the '58 All-Star. It has a decent front but a horrid back. I paid $13 for it and a 1962 Topps Roger Maris that has his team scratched out and corrected (I guess in a later year).
My real steal, though, was a purchase from the Beckett.com marketplace: A 1969 Topps Mickey Mantle for a listed price of $1. I thought it looked to good to be true until I got it in the mail. (It does appear to have been carried around in someone's back pocket)
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