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1909-11 T206 Christy Mathewson (Portrait)

Maker
American Tobacco Co. (T206)
Year
1909-1911
Rank
29 of 100

1909-11 T206 Christy Mathewson (Portrait)

1909-11 T206 Christy Mathewson (Portrait) by American Tobacco Co. (T206) (1909-1911) is ranked 29 in the FLOAT 100 for Trading cards. It sold for $4,920 on 26 May 2022. Flagship T206 HOF pitcher; a set cornerstone.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Flagship T206 HOF pitcher; a set cornerstone.

T206 Christy Mathewson Portrait, PSA 5

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$4,920
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
26 May 2022

Exact grade match: the Grade 5 completed-sales tab lists '1909-11 T206 Piedmont 150 Christy Mathewson (Portrait) PSA EX 5 [HeritageAuctions] $4,920.00', sale date 2022-05-26, USD. Heritage's own lot page returns HTTP 403 to any fetch, so the figure is cited from the SportsCardsPro page that was actually loaded. Corroborating: next-closest realized sale is an SGC EX 5 at Heritage on 2024-10-10 for $4,200, and the page's per-grade estimate puts Grade 5 at $4,364.22. The comp carries a Piedmont 150 back, the most common T206 back, which the identifier does not specify; scarcer backs trade at a multiple of this.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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