A Super Bowl ring given to a member of Tom Brady’s family fetched nearly $350,000 at an auction Sunday morning, making it one of the most valuable pieces of recent sports memorabilia ever sold.
The ring was a family version of the one Brady received for winning Super Bowl LI, meaning it has 265 diamonds instead of the standard 283 and is ten percent smaller than the version Brady himself received.
Valued by its maker Jostens for $29,700, the ring sold for $344,927, according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell. The only piece of sports memorabilia from the last 25 years that fetched more was Mike Piazza’s jersey from the New York Mets’ first game after the September 11 attacks, which sold in 2016 for $365,000.
Super Bowl rings do show up on the auction market from time to time. It’s rare, however, for a family ring of such high quality to, and even rarer for it to come from a player of Brady’s caliber. With that in mind, the price makes some sense.
