'Holy Grail' Honus Wagner card sells for over $5M as family auctions it from grandfather's collection

Another T206 Honus Wagner baseball card, considered to be the "Holy Grail" of the collectible space, was recently discovered and has been sold at auction for $5.124 million.

The sale was conducted via Goldin Auctions, and it included the buyer’s premium. It’s now the third-most expensive T206 Wagner card ever after a $6.606 million copy was sold in August 2021 and another for $7.25 million in August 2022. 

This recently discovered copy had been in the family of Douglas and Dennis Shields for 116 yards.