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Wagner card sells for record $2.8 million 

A rare baseball card, issued by the American Tobacco Company in 1909, has been bought for a record $2.8 million a little more than six months after it was sold for a then-record $2.35 million.

The renowned T206 Honus Wagner, dubbed the "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards and previously owned by ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky, was sold to an anonymous private collector last week.

"The T206 Honus Wagner card is an icon, not only in the field of baseball card collecting but in the larger field of Americana," David Kohler, president and chief executive of SCP Auctions who brokered the sale, said in a statement on Thursday.

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