Jordan Rookie PSA 10 Hits $360K at SCP Auctions

This week’s record sales column is a short one, but the figure at its centre is not. A Michael Jordan rookie card, graded PSA 10, sold for £272,000 ($360K) at SCP Auctions, as reported by the auction house on Tuesday 29 September 2026. It is the only sale documented by the seller for the period under review, and it is a substantial one by any measure of the trading-card market.

The Jordan PSA 10 rookie

SCP Auctions reported the hammer figure of £272,000 ($360K) for the Michael Jordan rookie card, graded PSA 10, the highest grade PSA awards, denoting a card judged to be in effectively flawless condition. No detail has been given as to which specific print or issue this rookie card represents, nor has SCP Auctions specified a buyer, so none is claimed here. The auction house’s own reporting is the sole source for the price, and nothing in the data indicates whether the figure includes buyer’s premium, so we make no claim either way on that point.

What can be said with confidence is that a PSA 10 Jordan rookie remains one of the most closely watched single items in the sports card hobby, and SCP Auctions’ listing of this result places it firmly among the notable sales of the year to date. The card’s grade is doing much of the work here: PSA 10 examples of early Jordan cardboard are scarce relative to lower grades, and population reports across the hobby have long shown a steep drop-off between near-mint and true gem mint survivors from this era. SCP Auctions did not supply further context on the card’s provenance or prior ownership history in its report, so this column does not speculate on either.

Also sold

No further sales were documented by the seller for the week ending 12 October 2026. This column reports only on transactions that have been disclosed to us; where a week is thin on data, we say so rather than filling the gap.

What it tells us

A single £272,000 sale does not, on its own, tell us much about the direction of the wider card market, one result from one auction house is a data point, not a trend. What it does confirm is that demand for top-grade examples of blue-chip basketball rookies has not gone away. SCP Auctions is a long-established venue for this category, and a six-figure sterling result for a PSA 10 Jordan rookie sits comfortably within the range the hobby has come to expect for pieces at this end of the condition spectrum, even if exact comparables are not part of this week’s reported data.

The thinness of this week’s column is itself worth noting. Record-sales reporting depends entirely on what auction houses, graders and marketplaces choose to disclose, and in weeks where only one transaction is documented, that is all we can responsibly cover. Readers should treat a quiet week as a reflection of reporting flow rather than of market inactivity, plenty of trading happens away from headline auction results, and our figures here only ever reflect what has been formally reported to us. As ever, this column records what has sold and for how much; it draws no conclusions about what any card, graded or otherwise, might be worth to buy or sell next.

Sterling converted from the reported figures at £1 = $1.32 (ECB reference rate, 2026-10-09) and rounded. Figures are as reported by the selling house or grader.