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1951 Bowman #253 Mickey Mantle RC

Set
Bowman
Year
1951
Sport
Baseball
Era
Vintage
Grades on record
13
Verified sales
26

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 12 grades from a named grading company, across 4 grading companies (BVG, CSG, PSA, SGC). Across those, the two ends sit 11.3× apart: BVG Authentic at $6,500 against SGC 7 at $73,200. Which one is the price depends on which slab is in your hand.

Notes on the file

Written from the record above. Every figure quoted here is one of the figures in the ladder; anything that could not be traced back to a verified sale was cut rather than corrected.

Most-traded gradePSA 3 · $23,395 · 3 verified sales

What this card is

It was issued as part of Bowman's 1951 baseball card set. The card is heavily traded in the vintage market, with realized sales spanning a wide range of grades and conditions.

Longest-standing figureSGC 7 · $73,200 · last sold 01 FEB 2025

The set it came from

The card was released as card #253 in Bowman's 1951 baseball set, a full-color set produced during Bowman's period as a leading baseball card manufacturer before Topps' later dominance of the category.

Spread across graded copiesBVG Authentic $6,500 → SGC 7 $73,200 · 11.3×

Why the grades diverge

Realized sales include copies graded PSA 1 through PSA 4, PSA Authentic, SGC 2.5, SGC 3.5, SGC 7, CSG 2, BVG Authentic, and raw/ungraded examples, reflecting the range of condition and grading outcomes seen for this card. Professionally graded copies exist across multiple grading companies.

Most recent verified saleRaw (ungraded) · $21,000 · 21 JUL 2026

What the record shows

Realized sales for this card range from $400 for a lower-condition ungraded copy up to $73,200 for an SGC 7 example sold in February 2025, the highest grade represented in the sales data. Lower grades such as PSA 1, PSA 1.5, and PSA Authentic have sold between roughly $10,000 and $14,200.

On the record4 questions the archive can answer
What is the highest realized sale price for this card?
A copy graded SGC 7 sold for $73,200 on 2025-02-01, the highest price among the recorded sales.
How much do ungraded copies of this card sell for?
Ungraded copies have sold for as little as $400 and as much as $21,000, depending on condition.
Which grading companies appear in sales of this card?
Recorded sales include cards graded by PSA, SGC, CSG, and BVG (Beckett Vintage Grading).
What price range do mid-grade copies typically sell for?
Copies graded PSA 2 through PSA 4, SGC 2.5, and CSG 2 have realized between approximately $14,000 and $23,395 in recorded sales.
Where each graded copy sits — log scale10 priced grades
$6,500 BVG AuthenticSGC 7 $73,200

The grade ladder

Every grade this card has a priced record in — nothing withheld — kept apart by grading company because a PSA 10 and a CGC 10 are different assets. 3 figures are marked disputed and should not be read as this card's price at that grade.

1951 Bowman #253 Mickey Mantle RC — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
GradeValueLast verified sale Realized rangeSold / comps DepthBasis
BVG — graded 1 grade · 1 verified sale
Authentic $6,500 22 MAY 2026 $6,500 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
CSG — graded 1 grade · 1 verified sale
2 $18,221 31 MAY 2026 $18,221 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
PSA — graded 7 grades · 16 verified sales
4 $21,350disputed: Priced below PSA 3, a lower grade from the same company 21 DEC 2025 $21,350 – $24,400 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
3 $23,395 18 MAY 2026 $12,000 – $23,395 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
2.5 $17,435 26 APR 2026 $17,435 – $18,000 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
2 $16,000 26 FEB 2026 $16,000 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
1.5 $14,200 07 MAY 2026 $12,000 – $14,200 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
1 $11,400 19 JUL 2026 $9,251 – $11,400 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
Authentic $15,000 30 JUN 2026 $10,000 – $16,189 3 realized sales of 3 comps moderate wtd median · sold
SGC — graded 3 grades · 4 verified sales
7 $73,200 01 FEB 2025 $73,200 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
3.5 $14,030disputed: Priced below SGC 2.5, a lower grade from the same company 18 MAY 2025 $14,030 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
2.5 $20,500 27 MAY 2026 $12,810 – $20,500 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 4 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw $21,000disputed: Priced at or above PSA 1, a graded copy — an ungraded copy should not be 21 JUL 2026 $400 – $21,000 4 realized sales of 4 comps thin last comp · sold

How these numbers are made

Source
FLOAT's own verified-comp archive. A comp is a realized sale only when it settled as an auction, a fixed-price purchase or an accepted offer; marketplace asks and price-guide columns are counted separately as quotes and can never stand in for a sale.
This file
26 verified sales across 13 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 07 AUG 2026.
Recency
Each grade shows the date of its own most recent verified sale. There is no refresh clock on this page and there will not be one: a graded card of this kind changes hands roughly twice a year, so a ticking counter would imply motion this market does not have.
Missing figures
A grade with no verified sale says so and shows no date. Nothing on this page is estimated, extrapolated or filled in from a comparable card.
Which grade is yours
Read the row for the company on your slab. The grade number alone is not enough — the same number from two companies is two different assets and trades accordingly.
Reading a row
"Value" is what the archive resolves that grade to; last comp means it is simply the most recent realized sale, carried forward. "Depth" is how much recent trade stands behind it — thin means fewer than three sales in the window, which is most of this market.
Disputed figures
A row marked disputed contradicts another row on this page: a grade priced below a lower grade from the same grading company, or an ungraded copy priced at or above a graded one. Both figures cannot be right and the archive does not say which is wrong, so neither is deleted and the less credible side carries the mark. Removing the row would hide the conflict rather than resolve it; 3 of the 13 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.