An autographed 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card has offered at Joopiter — 13-time Grammy profitable artist and producer Pharrell Williams’ public sale home — for $2.5 million, together with a 25% purchaser’s premium.
It is probably the most ever paid for a Jordan rookie card. Essentially the most ever paid beforehand for an autographed Jordan rookie card was $205,000 final March; probably the most ever paid for a non-signed Fleer Jordan rookie was $840,000 in 2021.
The $2.5 million Jordan rookie card is the third-highest public sale for any Michael Jordan card. Essentially the most ever paid was $2.928 million for a 1-of-1 2003-04 Higher Deck Final Assortment autographed Michael Jordan Logoman card final June.
The cardboard was signed for a personal collector final yr, in secret. Jordan has not often signed exterior of his longtime cope with Higher Deck, however in 2024, he autographed 9 1986-87 Fleer Jordan rookie playing cards in blue Sharpie in 2024 — six of which have acquired good 10 grades from card grader PSA. (These PSA 10s haven’t come up for public sale but.)
It was the primary sports activities card that Joopiter, which opened in 2022, has ever auctioned.
“We’re excited to debut on the earth of sports activities collectibles, largely in response to enthusiasm from our international neighborhood of collectors,” Caitlin Donovan, international head of gross sales at Joopiter, advised ESPN. “With a give attention to uncommon and iconic sports activities memorabilia, infused with the wealthy historical past that make these items actually particular, we sit up for bringing this neighborhood distinctive and vital items of sports activities historical past.”