The 1952 Topps Mantle is Overpriced and Over-hyped

[MattyC]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

Before the pandemic, you could have purchased a PSA 1 example for around $10,000 USD and now it's worth around $40,000 USD, and that's around a 4x price increase in a short period of time. But a PSA 4 has only doubled in value. For example, if you had spent $30,000 USD on one before the pandemic, then today it's worth around $60,000 USD or so. If you had spent $100,000 USD on a PSA 6 before the pandemic, well now it's worth ... wait for it ... about the same price! Does that make any sense to you? You would think that if an ugly PSA 1 has gone up 4x, then a PSA 6 or a PSA 7 should be worth $400,000 - $600,000 USD, right? But nope, that's not how it works! The real winners here are those who kept their ugly ones, and of course, those who bought this card in PSA 8 (or higher) prior to the pandemic.

Two 5s that weren't even centered just went for 156k and 180k. How is a 6 -- especially if centered-- worth 100k? A great 6 is 250-300k. A great 3 dead centered went for $163,000 also.

[pokerplyr80]

A PSA 2 just went for 81k in April at Huggins and Scott. And it was a decent, but not great example for the grade.

The numbers quoted above are way out of date. And there hasn't been a dead centered example sold with eye appeal that I've seen since that 3 Matt mentioned. The next one auctioned will shatter VCP records for the grade. 2x all time high or so (unless that grade happens to be a 3).