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Second, controversial, 1-of-1 Tom Brady rookie card sells at auction for $396,000

A 2000 Fleer Showcase Masterpiece Tom Brady rookie card, numbered 1 of 1 -- the only one of its kind -- and graded 8.5 NM-MT+ by Beckett Grading Services has sold for $396,000 with collectables marketplace PWCC, including the 20% buyer's premium.

Except it wasn't the only of its kind. Another 1-of-1 of the exact same Brady rookie card, graded by PSA, also exists.

When the sports card market went belly-up in the early to mid-1990s, it was owed largely to rampant fraud and overproduction -- with a smattering of the 1994 MLB strike mixed in.