![]() The card was nearly perfect - a possible gem mint 10, which could be worth $20,000. That came in Pack 19, which was bought by a collector named Brian Dwyer. ![]() "I was doing my best to stay to calm," Sheldon said. Opening the box was as intense as expected, especially because there wasn't a Jordan pulled for the first half of the box. Sheldon sold the 36 packs in the set for $2,000 apiece, then opened each of them live on his website Wednesday night. "Back then, there was so little interest that you could buy packs of those cards for 25 cents for a couple years," said Leighton Sheldon, who bought a 1986 Fleer set for $75,000 in July. Jordan's 1986 card is considered his rookie card, as no major brand produced basketball cards in his first two seasons in the league. Neglected by collectors at the time for baseball cards, the 1986 Fleer set became one of the hottest sets in the hobby as the value of a Michael Jordan rookie card skyrocketed over the past 10 years. On Wednesday night in Somerset, New Jersey, well-heeled collectors got a chance to go back to the past and take a shot at opening packs of 1986 Fleer basketball cards.
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