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. the card was designed and issued by the american tobacco company (atc) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its t206 series. wagner, a nonsmoker, refused to allow production of his baseball card to continue. the atc ended production of the wagner card and a total of only 57 to 200 cards were ever distributed to the public, as compared to the "tens or hundreds of thousands" of t206 cards, over three years in sixteen brands of cigarettes, for any other player. in 1933, the card was first listed at a price value of us $50 in jefferson burdick's "the american card catalog", making it the most expensive baseball card at the time.