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Rare Tom Brady card to fetch six figures

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Rare Tom Brady cards go for big bucks - and this one is set to fetch a six-figure sum.
Camera IconRare Tom Brady cards go for big bucks - and this one is set to fetch a six-figure sum. Credit: AP

One of just 20 special football cards from the year Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl is coming up for auction.

The 2002 Topps Finest X-Fractor card is expected to draw a six figure sum, underscoring the hot market for memorabilia associated with the 'GOAT' - greatest of all-time - quarterback.

The card was purchased in 2002 by a collector in Saco who took an interest in Brady's connection to the Michigan football program, Troy Thibodeau from Saco River Auction, said.

"Although he had just won a Super Bowl, he wasn't the Tom Brady that we know now," said Thibodeau. "No one thought Brady would become the GOAT."

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X-Fractor cards change appearance depending on light.

Another of the 20 sold for $US75,000 ($A106,000) but the card being put up for sale on January 31 is the only one to achieve the highest-grade offered by Professional Sports Authenticator, Thibodeau said.

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No one is hotter than Brady for collectible sports cards. A signed rookie football card sold for $US2.25 million ($A3.18 million) last year.

Then that was topped a few months later with another signed rookie card at $US3.1 million ($A4.4 million).

Brady, 44, began his professional football career with the New England Patriots, where he won six Super Bowls.

He won a seventh Super Bowl after signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, playing in the sport's biggest match for the 10th time.

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