Every Derek Jeter debut ticket above PSA 5 is an unused full ticket

Jeter batted ninth, played shortstop and went 0-for-5 in a 12-inning loss at the Kingdome on Monday 29 May 1995, called up because Tony Fernandez was hurt. The ticket says Game 21, 5:05 PM, and PSA files it as Mariners-8, Yankees-7 (12). Everything below comes from all eleven public sales of that ticket on record, drawn from the sold data we compile from Heritage, Goldin and Fanatics Collect, May 2015 to May 2026, and from a live PSA population read on 11 August 2026.

What has a Derek Jeter debut ticket actually sold for?

The eleven sales run from $1,076 to $38,430 and total $209,407. That single game accounts for 55% of every dollar spent on a graded Derek Jeter ticket in our data, which holds 286 Jeter ticket sales worth $379,508 from October 2012 to May 2026. The other 275 sales share the remaining 45%: the median graded Jeter ticket makes $208 and 80% of them sell under $1,000. The debut record is also the most anyone has paid for a Jeter ticket of any date, kind or grade.

Why does a GOOD 2 beat a MINT 9?

The record. A box seat stub, aisle 111, row 29, seat 111, signed in blue across the Yankees logo, graded PSA GOOD 2 with the autograph certified only as Authentic, not given a number. It sold at Goldin in March 2024 for $38,430 after 29 bids. Two grades on the label and neither one is high. It still beat the finest copy of this ticket that exists by $7,230.

Signed copies carry this market. The five signed sales run $10,980 to $38,430 with a median of $18,910. The four unsigned stub sales run $1,076 to $21,045 with a median of $12,383. Grade barely separates them: the $38,430 record and the $10,980 low are both PSA GOOD 2 stubs, and the one with the worse autograph grade made 3.5 times more. There are exactly three signed GOOD 2 copies, and all three have sold, so this is not a thin tier being guessed at. It is the same slab specification pricing anywhere between eleven and thirty-eight thousand dollars.

How many Derek Jeter debut tickets exist?

Twenty-four, read live from PSA's two population indexes on 11 August 2026, the plain ticket report and the PSA/DNA report that holds the signed copies. They split four ways: 10 unsigned stubs, 10 signed stubs, three full tickets, and one signed full ticket. The unsigned side has not moved since our July 2026 population census, which counted the same 10 stubs and three full tickets. For scale, Mickey Mantle's 1951 debut stub has 25 graded copies, so two of the most valuable debut tickets in baseball are almost exactly the same size.

No stub of either kind grades above PSA 5, and there is one of those. The most common grade is VG 3, held by seven copies, five unsigned and two signed. You can check both forms on PSA's report for the stub and the full ticket, or open the group in our population database.

Why is every full ticket a MINT 9?

Read the bottom of the ticket: 1995 SEASON TICKET, box, $15.00, aisle 121, row 13, seat 7, printed twice with the counterfoil still joined. This is not a ticket that survived a turnstile. It came out of a season-ticket book that nobody used, which is why all three full copies grade MINT 9 and PSA lists none higher. It sold at Heritage in August 2022 for $31,200 and again at Goldin in May 2026 for $23,180 after 33 bids.

That provenance also explains what the high grades used to cost. A complete unused set of 1995 Mariners season tickets, the debut game included, sold at Heritage in May 2017 for $5,040, and an eBay listing archived by WorthPoint records a PSA 9 full unused season ticket from the debut selling on 6 June 2016 for $3,556. Six years later the same specification made $31,200. The supply of high-grade copies was never a grading question. It was a question of how many season-ticket books stayed in a drawer.

What happens when the same slab comes back?

June 2024, $13,420

August 2025, $10,980

Two of the 24 copies have been sold twice in public, and both lost money. This one, a signed GOOD 2 with a GEM MT 10 autograph, made $13,420 in June 2024 and $10,980 in August 2025, an 18% fall in fourteen months on more bids the second time. The MINT 9 full ticket made $31,200 in August 2022 and $23,180 in May 2026, a 26% fall. Nothing about either slab changed.

The pair of unsigned VG 3s tell the same story from a different angle. Certs 88636860 and 88636861 are consecutive, and PSA issues cert numbers in sequence, so those two stubs were graded in the same submission. They were then sold four months apart at the same house: $13,420 in November 2024 on 37 bids, the most contested lot in this entire market, and $11,346 in March 2025 on 27 bids. Two identical tickets, one seller, a 15% gap.

What happened to the $21,045 cert?

In October 2023 this PSA FR 1.5 stub sold at Goldin for $21,045 after 22 bids, the highest price an unsigned Jeter debut stub has ever made. Look up cert 80206580 on psacard.com today and PSA returns a notice that the certification number has been intentionally deactivated, with the item grade listed as UNAVAILABLE.

That is why the population above has no PSA 1.5 in it. A deactivated cert is absent from PSA's report, so the graded population of this ticket is 24 rather than 25, and the best price ever paid for an unsigned stub belongs to a slab PSA no longer recognises. We have not been told why it was deactivated and we are not going to guess. The practical point stands on its own: a cert number printed in an auction title is a claim, and it takes about ten seconds to check it against PSA before you bid. It is the same check we run on every sale we value.

What else did Jeter's first fortnight produce?

Jeter's first stint lasted from 29 May to 11 June 1995, and PSA catalogues ten separate games from it. Every one has fewer graded copies than the debut, and every one is cheaper by a factor of nine or more. Populations below combine every form PSA lists, stub and full, signed and unsigned, from the same 11 August 2026 read.

The Yankee Stadium debut is the closest thing to a second market and it is not close. Nineteen copies exist against 24 of the debut, and its best result is $4,230 against $38,430. The rest of the fortnight trades in double and triple figures: a stub from the day of his first career triple made $57 in November 2024. Collectors here are paying for one date, not for scarcity, which is the pattern we measured across the whole hobby in what drives graded ticket prices.

What is a Derek Jeter debut ticket worth now?

Four prices, each anchored to a real sale rather than an average. A signed stub is a $10,980 to $18,910 item on its last three results, with the $38,430 record standing alone and untested since March 2024. An unsigned VG 3 stub, the most common copy in existence, is an $11,346 to $13,420 item on two sales six months apart. A MINT 9 full ticket is the finest form and last made $23,180 in May 2026, which is the most recent sale of any Jeter debut ticket and 26% below what the same slab made in 2022. A PSA Authentic stub has one data point, $26,400 in August 2021, and has not been offered since.

Every result since the March 2024 record has come in lower, the highest of them 40% below it. Eleven sales have moved only nine different slabs, and eight of those nine are among the 24, so 16 of the 24 copies have never been publicly offered. That untested supply includes two of the three MINT 9 full tickets and the single PSA 5 stub, which is the best-graded stub of this ticket in existence. Those are the pieces that would set a new ceiling, and none of them has been priced.