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1993 Tanzania · Famous Black Athletes · 40/- Postage Stamp
Michael Jordan
PSA 10 · Gem Mint · Refractor
Value per card
$2,000
Collective · 2 copies
$4,000
Rarity & holdings
PSA 10 population 4 graded
DimeLabs owns 2 of 4 · 50% of pop
Total graded14 · all grades
Valuation
Thinly traded — valued from limited public sales
$2,000
per stamp (PSA 10)
Last public sale
$500 · Apr 2025
PSA 10 pop
4
DimeLabs holds
2 of 4
Only one public PSA 10 sale is on record (April, $500). With a population of four and DimeLabs holding two, open-market comparables are extremely thin; the $2,000 figure is a conservative internal estimate reflecting the scarcity and the black-diamond label on one copy, not a published market price.
PSA population
Grade distribution from PSA census
Grade Count
PSA 10 ★ 4
PSA 9 5
PSA 6 and below 5
Total graded 14
Shown directly from the PSA census: 4 at PSA 10, 5 at PSA 9, and 5 at PSA 6 and below (PSA has graded no examples between, and none higher than PSA 10). The rows sum to the stated total pop of just 14. With only 14 graded across all grades and 4 at PSA 10, this is one of the smallest populations in the collection — foreign-issue Jordan stamps were rarely submitted for grading.
DimeLabs holdings — 2 stamps · one with black-diamond label
Copies owned
2 of 4
Share of PSA 10 pop
50%
Value per copy
$2K
Collective value
$4K
Tanzania copy 1 front
Copy 1 PSA Cert #72027556 ◆ Black Diamond label Verify on PSA →
Tanzania copy 2 front
Copy 2 PSA Cert #72027557 Verify on PSA →
Each copy is an individually graded PSA 10 with its own certification number, independently verifiable on PSA’s registry. Click either copy’s thumbnail to view its own front and back. One of the two (cert #72027556) also carries PSA’s black-diamond label, a desirable designation that adds to its appeal. Both are valued equally here as a conservative baseline; the collective figure is the per-stamp value times two.
Why this card
DimeLabs perspective
Not every Jordan collectible is a trading card. This is a 1993 Tanzania postage stamp — a genuine, government-issued 40-shilling stamp from the East African nation’s ‘Famous Black Athletes’ commemorative series, honoring Jordan alongside other prominent Black athletes of the era. The artwork is a painted portrait rather than a photograph: a warm, hand-illustrated head-and-shoulders of a smiling Jordan, with ‘TANZANIA 40/-’ across the top and ‘MICHAEL JORDAN’ lettered below. During the early-to-mid 1990s, a number of countries issued Jordan stamps as his global fame peaked, and these foreign issues occupy a quirky, beloved corner of the hobby — small, colorful, and completely distinct from his mainstream cardboard. What makes a PSA 10 here so unusual is simply how rarely these were ever graded: PSA has certified just 14 examples of this stamp across every grade, with only 4 reaching PSA 10. DimeLabs owns two of those four — half of the entire PSA 10 population — and one of the two also carries PSA’s black-diamond label, a desirable designation that adds to its appeal. Because so few have traded publicly, the market is thin: a single PSA 10 sale is on record (April, at $500), so the $2,000-per-stamp figure here is a conservative internal estimate that weighs the tiny population and the concentration of supply rather than a deep sales history. As a piece, it is exactly the kind of unusual, high-rarity Jordan item — an actual postage stamp, gem-graded, two of four in existence — that rounds out a serious collection beyond the cards.
Grade & Certification
Grade PSA 10 · Gem Mint
Certification numbers (2) 72027556 · 72027557
Card details
Issuer Tanzania Post
Denomination 40/- shillings
Series Famous Black Athletes
Format Painted-portrait stamp
Format Government postage stamp
PSA 10 Challenge Only 14 ever PSA-graded
Storage PSA Vault
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Copy 1
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