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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: 2
Verified sales: 4

No headline price

This card has a verified sale at 2 grades from a named grading company, across one grading company.

Notes on the file

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

Most-traded gradeBGS 9 · $198,000 sold Nov 18, 2023 · 3 verified sales

What this card is

The 2003 Exquisite Collection #78 LeBron James rookie card is a patch autograph card numbered to 99 copies. It combines a jersey swatch with an on-card autograph and is among the most recognized modern basketball rookie cards. It has produced some of the highest realized sale prices in the trading card hobby.

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

The set it came from

Exquisite Collection was an ultra-premium Upper Deck basketball product introduced in 2003, known for low print runs, patch autograph rookie cards, and high price points at release. The LeBron James rookie card from this set, numbered to 99, is the flagship card of the product and a key piece from his rookie class.

Why the grades diverge

Realized sales include both ungraded examples and copies graded BGS 9 and BGS 8.5. Professionally graded copies exist, but no comprehensive population data is available from the anchor sales alone.

Most recent verified saleBGS 9 · $198,000 · 18 NOV 2023

What the record shows

This spread illustrates the card's status as a high-value, actively traded asset with pricing sensitive to market timing and individual card characteristics.

On the record4 questions the archive can answer

What is the 2003 Exquisite Collection LeBron James rookie card?: It is a patch autograph rookie card of LeBron James from Upper Deck's 2003 Exquisite Collection set, card #78, numbered to 99 copies.
How rare is this card?: The card is limited to a print run of 99 copies, making it one of the scarcer LeBron James rookie cards produced.
Has a graded copy of this card sold?: Yes, graded copies have sold, including a BGS 9 example for $198,000 in 2023 and a BGS 8.5 example for $192,000 in 2019.
Why is this card significant in the hobby?: It is considered one of the most important modern basketball cards due to its combination of a patch, autograph, low print run, and LeBron James's rookie status.

Value by grade

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. 2 grades show only a dated last sale: too few recent sales to state a current price.

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	Last known sale Nov 2023: not a current price	18 NOV 2023	$198,000 · Nov 18, 2023	3 realized sales of 3 comps	thin	last comp · last sale
8.5	Last known sale Aug 2019: not a current price	18 AUG 2019	$192,000 · Aug 18, 2019	1 realized sale of 1 comps	thin	last comp · last sale

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: 4 verified sales across 2 grades, computed from the archive as it stood on 15 SEP 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. Disputed figures are never used for the spread quoted at the top of this page.