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Originally Posted by K111
ok, after doing some research, apparently people estimate there are approximately 5,000 or so 52 Mantles in existence, based on the amount of graded ones (under 2,000) and the amount of ungraded ones that people estimate are lurking around yet to be graded or discovered (mainly older people who collected them in their youth who forgot about them)
so if the 52 Mantle was double printed, it would mean that the average common 52 card maybe has around 2,500 still existing? still seems low
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233551
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Originally Posted by discodanman45
There are almost 2700 graded between Beckett, PSA, and SGC. 2500 Mantle's in slabs is a safe number. Some were cracked and resubmitted, for example CSG got a cracked PSA 7.5 that they graded a CSG 8.
I think there are a lot more ungraded examples than people think. I am sure there are many hoarders of vintage Mantles that think grading is absolutely ridiculous.
I think that most people can agree that they produced a lot and a lot of them are now gone.
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Not that I think grading is ridiculous, (although I am not a fan of PSA for a variety of reasons) but the price they'd charge me to grade mine makes zero sense to me.
It wouldn't take any TPG anymore than 20-30 seconds to either grade mine an "A" or a 1 yet I'd be charged a $1,000 for that?? (If it is not more now?)
It also scares the sh*t out of me sending them through the mail, especially since I am in Canada, and having to deal with customs twice.
I have thought about MNT up here even though I know I likely wouldn't get the same money I would if my Mantle and others were in PSA slabs, but even that scares/concerns me as they don't allow drop offs and pick ups.