Company auctions 1-of-1 Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle Card NFT in what may be the highest valued sports NFT to date
History was made when the Topps trading card of American baseball player Mickey Mantle sold for $5.2 million. Setting a new standard for rare collectibles, traditional collectors quickly realized that this industry is far different from the days of older generations, with larger-ticket sales now commonplace.
Now, the world is quickly shifting into a digital era, meaning physical assets that once held millions in value are making their way to the virtual world through nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The result is that NFTs are now being offered as the next generation of collectibles.
Similar to a traditional trading card, users can experience the same rush of owning a piece of history. The major difference is that the digital nature of an NFT will enable fans to gain access to a new way to interact with collectibles. With the ability to verify their "rareness," assets like the Golden State Warriors Legacy Collection World Champion Ring NFT selling for over $950,000 during its initial release and the Erling Haaland 2020-21 now being worth an estimated $831,000.
To the delight of many in the trading card community, Topps Company, Inc. has continued to share the greatest moments in sports and entertainment since its humble beginnings in 1938. The Mona Lisa of trading cards, the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle represents just one. Topps’s evolution into the digital collectible space has yielded many successes to date, namely their suite of digital collectible apps in 2012 and now the launch of their own NFT platform in 2021, toppsnfts.com, where they released a number of NFT collections for Major League Baseball, Bazooka Joe, Toho Godzilla, and Bundesliga, with more first-of-their kind releases in the works.
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