Ken Goldin, founder of Goldin Auctions in Runnemede, displays a 1909 Honus Wagner card valued at an estimated $5 million. Chris LaChall/Courier-Post via Imagn Content Services, LLC

Auction for Honus Wagner card at $4.8 million, could be highest-selling baseball card ever

By Erin Walsh | Last updated 7/30/21

A Honus Wagner T206 card could become the highest-selling baseball card ever when it sells at Robert Edwards Auctions next month.

According to Darren Rovell of The Action Network, the Wagner card currently has a bid of more than $4.8 million, and there are still 16 days left in the auction.

Robert Edwards Auctions calls it “The Mona Lisa of baseball cards.”

The guys at @REAOnline auctioning off this Honus. Right now at $4,806,000, highest ever for this card. 16 days left. pic.twitter.com/upd2JFTzXQ
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 30, 2021

Another Wagner card set a record when it sold for more than $3.75 million in May, making it the sixth-most expensive card of all time.

This particular card, however, has the highest grade ever for a Wagner card and could end up selling for $5 million. With a current bid of $4.8 million, the card will already be the second highest-selling card of all time, surpassing a Luka Doncic 1-of-1 Logoman Autographed card that sold for $4.6 million.

A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card and 2003-04 LeBron James Rookie Patch Autograph card are the highest-selling cards in history at $5.2 million.

Three Wagner cards are currently in the top 10 of the highest-selling cards. All have sold for more than $3 million.

Wagner, a Hall of Famer, won the 1909 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and also won the batting title eight times. He hit .328/.391/.467 with 101 home runs and 1,732 RBI across 21 seasons.

The Pittsburgh native spent 18 of his 21 seasons with the Pirates. He also spent time with the Lousiville Colonels.

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