An autographed 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card has offered at Joopiter — 13-time Grammy successful 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. Probably the most ever paid beforehand for an autographed Jordan rookie card was $205,000 final March and 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 — probably the most ever paid was $2.928 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 12 months, in secret. Jordan has hardly ever signed exterior of his longtime take care of 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 Joopiter, opened in 2022, ever auctioned off.
“We’re excited to debut on this planet of sports activities collectibles, largely in response to enthusiasm from our world group of collectors,” Caitlin Donovan, world head of gross sales at Joopiter, advised ESPN. “With a concentrate on uncommon and iconic sports activities memorabilia, infused with the wealthy historical past that make these items actually particular, we sit up for bringing this group distinctive and important items of sports activities historical past.”