A complete 1986-87 Fleer Basketball set with each card graded PSA 10, including the Michael Jordan rookie card, sold for $390,000 Wednesday night in Part 2 of the Goldin 100 auction of high-end cards and memorabilia. The set did not include the sticker insert set.
A 1984-85 Star Company Jordan rookie card graded PSA 8.5 sold for $144,000, a record price for the grade.
A 1948 Bowman George Mikan rookie graded 9 by SGC went for $228,000 while a 1916 M101-4 Babe Ruth rookie graded SGC 1.5 netted $288,000, both of which were also record prices for their specific grades.
Other single card sales included a 1997-98 Upper Deck Game Jerseys Jordan (#18/23) graded BGS NM-8 (10 auto) that ended at $552,000, a 1997-98 Skybox Precious Metal Gems Red Jordan PSA 4 that netted $342,000, a 2021-22 Panini Flawless Triple Logoman LeBron James/Steph Curry/Luka Doncic card that brought $302,400 and a 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady PSA 10 that went for $289,066.
The top selling lot in the auction was the $972,000 price for a PSA 8 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle. That was the lowest price for a NM/MT graded copy of Mantle’s most valuable card since May of 2021. A 1954 Topps Hank Aaron PSA 9 netted $480,000, also the lowest price for a Mint Aaron rookie in two years.
A jersey worn by Steph Curry in Game 1 of the 2017 NBA Finals fared better, closing at $231,636. The sale came six years after it originally sold for $70,065 through NBA Auctions.
The most expensive piece of memorabilia sold was a pair of Nike Airship shoes believed to be the earliest game-worn Jordan NBA regular season sneakers that have reached the market. The signed shoes were given by Jordan to a ball boy after Jordan’s fifth career game. A conclusive photo match hasn’t been found as of yet, but the provenance and potential of a match helped the shoes sold for $624,000.
A 2014 Tom Brady game-used, photomatched and autographed New England Patriots home jersey from one of his seven championship seasons, went for $420,000 while an autographed, game-worn 1970s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Milwaukee Bucks jersey sold for $188,400.
In all, the auction of 55 lots generated more than $10 million, an average of over $181,000 per lot.
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