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1984 Star #101 Michael Jordan RC

Set
Star
Year
1984
Sport
Basketball
Era
Junk wax
Grades on record
7
Verified sales
20

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 6 grades from a named grading company, across 2 grading companies (BGS, PSA). Across those, the two ends sit 3.2× apart: PSA 4 at $39,155 against PSA 7 at $127,050. Which one is the price depends on which slab is in your hand.

Notes on the file

Written from the record above. Every figure quoted here is one of the figures in the ladder; anything that could not be traced back to a verified sale was cut rather than corrected.

Most-traded gradePSA 4 · $39,155 · 3 verified sales

What this card is

The 1984 Star #101 card is the rookie card of Michael Jordan, issued in the 1984 Star basketball set. It predates Jordan's more widely distributed Fleer rookie card by two years and is one of the most recognized rookie cards in basketball card collecting.

Longest-standing figurePSA 6 · $48,900 · last sold 17 JAN 2026

The set it came from

The card comes from the 1984 Star basketball set, produced by Star Co., a manufacturer whose products were distributed differently from mainstream wax-pack issues of the era. Card #101 within the set corresponds to Michael Jordan's rookie issue.

Spread across graded copiesPSA 4 $39,155 → PSA 7 $127,050 · 3.2×

Why the grades diverge

Realized sales include graded copies at PSA 4, PSA 5, PSA 5.5, PSA 6, PSA 7, and BGS 8, alongside ungraded examples. Graded copies in the recorded sales sold for substantially more than the ungraded examples.

Most recent verified saleRaw (ungraded) · $2,500 · 14 JUL 2026

What the record shows

Realized sales for the 1984 Star #101 Michael Jordan rookie card span a wide range depending on grade. A PSA 7 sold for $127,050 and a BGS 8 sold for $80,000, while a PSA 5.5 brought $63,558.85 and a PSA 6 brought $48,900. The spread across these transactions shows condition and grading having a significant effect on realized price.

On the record4 questions the archive can answer
What is the 1984 Star #101 Michael Jordan card?
It is Michael Jordan's rookie card from the 1984 Star basketball set, numbered 101 within the set.
Who manufactured the 1984 Star set?
The set was produced by Star Co., a basketball card manufacturer active in 1984.
What grades have sold for this card?
Recorded realized sales include PSA 4, PSA 5, PSA 5.5, PSA 6, PSA 7, BGS 8, and ungraded copies.
Does grading significantly affect the value of this card?
Yes, based on realized sales, graded copies sold for considerably more than ungraded copies, with higher numeric grades generally associated with higher sale prices.
Where each graded copy sits — log scale5 priced grades
$39,155 PSA 4PSA 7 $127,050

The grade ladder

Every grade this card has a priced record in — nothing withheld — kept apart by grading company because a PSA 10 and a CGC 10 are different assets. 1 figure is marked disputed and should not be read as this card's price at that grade.

1984 Star #101 Michael Jordan RC — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
GradeValueLast verified sale Realized rangeSold / comps DepthBasis
BGS — graded 1 grade · 2 verified sales
8 $80,000 07 APR 2026 $67,995 – $80,000 2 realized sales of 2 comps thin last comp · sold
PSA — graded 5 grades · 7 verified sales
7 $127,050 28 JUN 2026 $127,050 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
6 $48,900disputed: Priced below PSA 5.5, a lower grade from the same company 17 JAN 2026 $48,900 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
5.5 $63,559 28 JUN 2026 $63,559 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
5 $40,252 22 FEB 2026 $40,252 1 realized sale of 1 comps thin last comp · sold
4 $39,155 18 MAY 2026 $38,004 – $43,023 3 realized sales of 3 comps thin last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 11 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw $2,500 14 JUL 2026 $13 – $51,458 11 realized sales of 11 comps moderate wtd median · sold

How these numbers are made

Source
FLOAT's own verified-comp archive. A comp is a realized sale only when it settled as an auction, a fixed-price purchase or an accepted offer; marketplace asks and price-guide columns are counted separately as quotes and can never stand in for a sale.
This file
20 verified sales across 7 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 07 AUG 2026.
Recency
Each grade shows the date of its own most recent verified sale. There is no refresh clock on this page and there will not be one: a graded card of this kind changes hands roughly twice a year, so a ticking counter would imply motion this market does not have.
Missing figures
A grade with no verified sale says so and shows no date. Nothing on this page is estimated, extrapolated or filled in from a comparable card.
Which grade is yours
Read the row for the company on your slab. The grade number alone is not enough — the same number from two companies is two different assets and trades accordingly.
Reading a row
"Value" is what the archive resolves that grade to; last comp means it is simply the most recent realized sale, carried forward. "Depth" is how much recent trade stands behind it — thin means fewer than three sales in the window, which is most of this market.
Disputed figures
A row marked disputed contradicts another row on this page: a grade priced below a lower grade from the same grading company, or an ungraded copy priced at or above a graded one. Both figures cannot be right and the archive does not say which is wrong, so neither is deleted and the less credible side carries the mark. Removing the row would hide the conflict rather than resolve it; 1 of the 7 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.