Mickey Mantle Baseball Card
Maker: Topps
Original Price: $1*
Worth Today: $5.22 million*
Mickey “the Mick” Mantle is one of the best-known baseball players of all time. Born in 1931, he spent his entire career with the Yankees and hit 536 home runs. His batting average was.298. Mantle’s original baseball cards from Topps have sold for record-breaking prices. In January 2021, PWCC Marketplace sold a 1952 mint condition Topps card for $5.22 million. This shattered the previous mark set by MLB player Mike Trout. Rob Gough, Mantle’s card buyer, stated that he had been looking for the “high-grade example” for years and was “ecstatic” to have found it.

Mickey Mantle Baseball Card
Post Ten Variety Pack Cereal Pack
Maker: Post
Original Price: $0.20-$0.40*
Worth Today: $2,550
Children have always enjoyed variety packets of cereal, and the Post Ten Variety Pack Cereal Pack from 1962 is no exception. Post Cereal had long offered standard-size, huge cereal boxes, but in 1962, company shook things up and began offering single-serving boxes called “Post Tens.” The small boxes were arranged in cardboard trays. The boxes might be cut open to serve as cereal dishes. The Post Tens tray served as a platform for the boxes, and the bottom featured three 1962 baseball cards: #131 Willie McCovey, #75 Rocky Bridges, and #5 Mickey Mantle. Complete Post Tens trays are extremely rare, which is why they command such high prices when they do become available.

Post Ten Variety Pack Cereal Pack