A PSA 9 Jordan rookie leads Sunday at $41,900

The 1986 Fleer #57 took 34 bids to become the top confirmed sale among 477 Jordan cards that changed hands.

A 1986 Fleer #57 Michael Jordan rookie graded PSA 9 sold for $41,900 on eBay Sunday after drawing 34 bids. It was the day’s highest price and its highest confirmed-paid price across 477 qualifying single-card Jordan sales.

Why it matters

The 1986 Fleer #57 is the Jordan rookie and the benchmark the rest of the market prices against. This one set its number in open bidding rather than a private negotiation, which makes it the most readable Jordan print of the day.

By the numbers

• $41,900 — the PSA 9’s final price on 34 bids, and 76x the day’s median sale.
• $17,700 and $17,300 — two PSA 8 copies of the same card cleared the same day, on 42 and 37 bids.
• 477 sales, $560 median — the full day of qualifying single-card Jordan sales. 382 were confirmed paid, totalling $653,185.80 at a $563.37 median.

Zoom in

Two mechanisms, two qualities of signal. The PSA 9 was an auction with 34 bidders competing. The day’s largest asking price — $35,000 on a PSA 8 #57 — came through an accepted best offer at 0 bids, and eBay never publishes what a best offer actually settles at. Note also that the most contested card of the day was neither: a 1985 Nike Promo graded PSA 7 pulled 77 bids and finished at $2,415.

Reality check

No comp multiple is published here, and that is deliberate. The baseline pull for a 1986 Fleer #57 returned 108 sales but spread from a $6,900 lower quartile to a $17,700 upper quartile on a $9,500 median — a 2.57x spread against this column’s 2.5x ceiling. A pool that wide is mixing grades and issues, not measuring one card, so any multiple drawn from it would look rigorous and be wrong. Valuing off the wrong peer group is the same error our stock-research sister project spends its time avoiding on the equity side.

What's next

Watch whether PSA 9 copies hold this level, and treat the day’s totals as a floor rather than a full accounting: 95 of the 477 sales were accepted best offers carrying $167,122.82 in asking prices, and what those actually settled at is not public. More in the RazMania sports collectibles hub and in Saturday’s Jordan card report.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily, filtering out multi-card lots, reprints, cross-listed items and non-card merchandise to isolate genuine single-card sales. Prices are final sold prices. No comparable-sale median is quoted for this card: the baseline pool failed this column’s dispersion test. The day set covers 2026-10-18 and was cross-checked three ways — a card-specific completeness probe, four price-band split audits and a union over every dataset this run pulled — all of which agreed. The wider context pull spans 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-18, not 90 days. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.