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2003 Exquisite Collection #78 LeBron James RC Patch Auto /99

Set: Upper Deck
Year: 2003
Sport: Basketball
Era: Modern
Grades on record: 3
Verified sales: 13

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 2 grades from a named grading company, across one grading company. Across those, the two ends sit a few percent apart: BGS 8.5 at $192,000 against BGS 9 at $198,000. 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 gradeBGS 9 · $198,000 · 3 verified sales

What this card is

The 2003 Exquisite Collection #78 is LeBron James's rookie patch autograph card, numbered to 99 copies. It combines a game-used jersey patch with an on-card autograph, a format that defined the Exquisite Collection release as one of the premier ultra-high-end basketball products of its era. Realized sales for this card have reached into seven figures.

Longest-standing figureBGS 8.5 · $192,000 · last sold 18 AUG 2019

The set it came from

The card comes from the 2003 Exquisite Collection basketball set, issued with a print run of 99 copies for card #78. Exquisite Collection paired game-used memorabilia swatches with on-card autographs, distinguishing it from standard base and insert issues of the same year. Manufacturer and full release details beyond the set name and print run are unknown.

Spread across graded copiesBGS 8.5 $192,000 → BGS 9 $198,000 · 1×

Why the grades diverge

Recorded realized sales include copies graded BGS 9 and BGS 8.5, alongside several ungraded examples. As a patch autograph rookie numbered to 99 copies, the card is scarce by print run regardless of grade.

Most recent verified saleRaw (ungraded) · $1,159,000 · 29 MAR 2025

What the record shows

Realized sales for the 2003 Exquisite Collection #78 LeBron James rookie patch autograph range from $156,000 to $2,400,000. Graded copies in the data sold for less: a BGS 9 brought $198,000 in November 2023 and a BGS 8.5 brought $192,000 in August 2019. A further ungraded copy sold for $156,000 in May 2023, showing wide variance even among ungraded examples.

On the record5 questions the archive can answer

What is the 2003 Exquisite Collection #78 LeBron James card?: It is LeBron James's rookie patch autograph card, numbered 78 in the 2003 Exquisite Collection basketball set and limited to 99 copies.
How rare is this card?: The card was issued with a print run of 99 copies, making it a limited, numbered rookie patch autograph.
What has this card sold for?: Recorded realized sales range from $156,000 to $2,400,000, with the highest sale, $2,400,000, occurring in October 2022 for an ungraded copy.
What grades have sold for this card?: Recorded sales include BGS 9 and BGS 8.5 graded copies, along with several ungraded examples.
Is this considered a valuable LeBron James rookie card?: Based on recorded realized sale prices reaching into the millions of dollars, it is among the highest-value LeBron James rookie cards in the sales data.

Spread across graded copies2 priced grades

These grades trade within a few percent of each other — $192,000 BGS 8.5 to $198,000 BGS 9. Too narrow a range to plot honestly, so it is not plotted.

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.

2003 Exquisite Collection #78 LeBron James RC Patch Auto /99 — value, evidence and recency for every grade on record
Grade	Value	Last verified sale	Realized range	Sold / comps	Depth	Basis
BGS — graded 2 grades · 4 verified sales
9	$198,000	18 NOV 2023	$198,000 – $264,000	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · sold
8.5	$192,000	18 AUG 2019	$192,000	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · sold
Raw — ungraded 1 grade · 9 verified sales Copies sold with no grade assigned by any company.
Raw	$1,159,000disputed: Priced at or above BGS 8.5, a graded copy — an ungraded copy should not be	29 MAR 2025	$156,000 – $2,400,000	9 realized sales of 9 comps	thin	last comp · 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: 13 verified sales across 3 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 3 grades on this page are marked. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.