It may not sound all that unusual for a T206 Honus Wagner to fetch $3.13 million in an auction these days. That said, the “Charlie Sheen All-Star Cafe” Honus Wagner that fetched $3.136 million in the Mile High Card Co. auction is merely a PSA 1 grade. The backstory behind the card is fascinating. What is more fascinating is that this sale should not even be considered as the most important sale in the March 31 auction even if this was by far the highest price.
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# Bids: 45
Min Bid: $300,000.00
Final Price: $3,136,500.00
The T206 Piedmont 350/25 back of Joe Doyle for “N.Y. Nat’l, Hands Up” is one of the toughest error cards that exists in the T206 set. This example was graded as PSA 2 and is listed as “exceedingly rare” in the description. The minimum bid price was already “exceedingly high” at $150,000.00 — but after 44 bids the final price came down at $1,055,798.79. Yes, a T206 error card is now worth over $1 million! If that is not the most impressive auction result then it would be solely because of the dollars involved.
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Lot 2 Exceedingly Rare 1909-11 T206 Piedmont 350/25 Joe Doyle N.Y. Nat’l Hands Up PSA 2 GOOD
# Bids: 44
Min Bid: $150,000.00
Final Price: $1,055,798.79
Elsewhere, a 1909-11 T206 (Nearly) complete set that is the 520 necessary cards out of 524 cards (missing “the big four” with all cards graded by PSA and a PSA Set Registry with a 4.386 GPA fetched $400,772.13 after 35 bids.
# Bids: 35
Min Bid: $50,000.00
Final Price: $400,772.13
The last serious impression in the T206 auction was a 1909-1911 T206 Sweet Caporal 350/30 Eddie Plank. This card is merely a PSA Authentic (A) and after a minimum bid of $7,500.00 there were 33 bids and a final price of $129,170.91.
