Legend holds that Honus Wagner himself objected to his image being used to promote cigarettes — whether to protect children from tobacco marketing or over a royalty dispute is still debated — and had the American Tobacco Company halt production, leaving fewer than 60 copies known to exist.
It's the card every "most valuable trading card" list starts with, decades before Pokémon or modern sports cards existed — a genuine holy grail that made headlines every single time a copy has changed hands since the 1970s.
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