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Reverse of a T206 card issued under the 'Piedmont cigarettes' brand. T206 cards were issued with 16 different backs, representing the 16 different brands of cigarettes/tobacco with which the cards were issued. Due to the same card having different backs, there are actually far more than 524 "different" T206 cards.
The typical card in the T206 series had a width of 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 inches (3.65 cm) and a height of 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (6.67 cm). [11] Some cards were awkwardly shaped or irregularly sized, which prompted a belief that many of the cards in the series had been altered at one point or another.
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist. [31] The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company (ATC) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its T206 series.
One of the rarest baseball cards has fetched a record amount at auction despite a low condition grade.
The most valuable cigarette card in the world features Honus Wagner, one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century.The T206 Honus Wagner has repeatedly set records at auction, most recently in 2016 when it sold for $3,120,000. [9]
A damaged 1909 T206 Honus Wagner baseball card that was trimmed, missing three sides and had a crease in the middle, sold at auction for $1.5 million.
According to cardboardconnection.com, as of 2015, it is estimated that less than 60 of the T206 Honus Wagner cards still exist. By last count, there were 57 known examples. [15] In 2021, a T206 Wagner card was sold in a private sale for $7.5 million, a record amount for a sports card. [16] [15] Another famous one, from 1911, is Joe Tinker. [17 ...
The T206 Honus Wagner card was reissued by Topps in 2002, with variations on its background color. The card was printed with the original orange color of 1909 (#179), and also in blue (#307) and red (#456). [9] In 2020, a new Honus Wagner card was issued by the company (#45) as part of the second wave (of 5) released that year. [10]