Unlike most of what carries Jordan’s image from this era, this is an actual government-issued postage stamp rather than a licensed collectible. St. Vincent and the Grenadines — a small Caribbean nation that has long issued topical stamps for the worldwide collector market — released it on 17 April 1996 as part of its Sport Legends series, with a face value of $2 East Caribbean dollar. It is catalogued as Scott 2268Ab, and the design is a tight vertical portrait: Jordan in a red Bulls road jersey looking up, with ‘ST. VINCENT / THE GRENADINES’ across the lower band and the $2.00 value at top right. It is worth being precise about what this is, because the 1996 Jordan stamp market is crowded with Upper Deck commemorative products — the $30 gold stamps, the fold-over gold booklets, and the uncut sheets — which are licensed memorabilia, not postage. This is the real stamp, the one a collector could in principle have mailed a letter with, which is exactly why so few were preserved at gem-mint condition: stamps were made to be used, and the thin perforated paper chips and creases at the slightest handling. PSA has since stopped grading these St. Vincent issues, so the population is fixed — twenty-five copies have reached PSA 10, and no more will be added. DimeLabs holds one of those twenty-five.