Perfect Michael Jordan Rookie Card Sells for $100K

A professionally graded, perfect copy of Michael Jordan’s 1986-87 Fleer rookie card sold for six-figures recently in a sale brokered by a California auction house. The card, which was graded a Pristine 10 by Beckett Grading Services, fetched $100,000 when it was sold by Memory Lane Inc. earlier this month to a private collector on the West Coast.

What makes this card so special? There are just three copies of the famed card graded as a BGS 10 out of more than 5,500 cards that have been submitted to the company for examination. Cards with poor centering, miscut edges, printing spots,