An “aftermarket” signed 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card has bought in a non-public sale through Goldin Auctions for $2.7 million. In accordance with the public sale home, it’s a report paid for a card with an “aftermarket” signature.

“Aftermarket” signed playing cards are autographed outdoors the chain of card manufacturing; bodily autographed playing cards are both arduous signed immediately onto the floor, signed onto a hologram sticker which is later positioned onto the cardboard’s floor, or embedded as reduce signatures — autographs reduce from paperwork equivalent to checks.

Due to Jordan’s longtime unique cope with Higher Deck, signed Jordan rookie playing cards have been arduous to seek out for many years outdoors the 23 copies Jordan signed for a 2006 twentieth anniversary buyback Higher Deck promotion. However Jordan has lately began to do personal signings, together with on the Fleer rookie card, that are nonetheless thought of uncommon.

Goldin Auctions founder and CEO Ken Goldin confirmed by a consultant that the cardboard — graded a PSA Mint 9 with a ten autograph grade — was one of many 9 signed by Jordan “in personal with witnesses” at a 2024 signing.

One other card from that signing (one in every of three PSA 9s; the remaining six acquired 10 grades from PSA and, as of June, haven’t surfaced publicly) bought through Joopiter, Pharell Williams’ public sale home, for $2.5 million in late June. Goldin additionally confirmed to ESPN that this $2.7 million Jordan just isn’t a reselling of the $2.5 million Joopiter card.

“Signed rookie playing cards of greatest-of-all-time athletes, like Michael Jordan, characterize the head of sports activities collectibles,” Goldin stated in a press release. “This record-breaking sale is a testomony not solely to Jordan’s enduring legacy but in addition to the popularity of aftermarket-signed playing cards […].”