Almost every collector knows this card on sight — and usually for the wrong reason. The photograph is unmistakable but genuinely strange: Jordan rising for a layup with the ball cupped overhead, mouth open, his face caught at an angle that barely reads as him. It is not a flattering image; people remember it precisely because it looks a little uncanny. What makes the Skyview special is the engineering behind that photo. It is a 1995–96 NBA Hoops Series 2 insert built around a clear plastic acetate window: the action photo is die-cut and floats over a multi-colored transparent pane set into a marbled border, so light passes through the card and it reads from both sides.

The back is the same image flipped — mirrored left-to-right — but cleverly handled so the jersey doesn’t reverse, keeping the ‘23’ and BULLS the right way round; the front border here is magenta, the back a cool teal. The cards are extra-thick and were so scarce that a single Skyview replaced two regular cards in the pack, dropping at roughly one in 480 packs of Series 2. It is the kind of card the hobby underrates — everyone knows the picture, fewer appreciate how unusual the object is — and the market has been steadily catching up: a dip-and-climb curve that has pushed from a few hundred dollars pre-2020 to a most-recent average of $6,484 in January 2026. The acetate window scuffs and the exposed die-cut edges chip, so of 482 copies graded by PSA only 59 have reached PSA 10, a 12.24 percent gem rate. (The slab reads 1995; the back is copyrighted 1996, the Series 2 release year — the set is catalogued as 1995–96.)