A bank check Steve Jobs hand-signed for Apple Computer Company in 1976 sold for $63,705.39 when Iconic Auctions closed its September sale on September 5, 2026 — more than four times the item’s $15,000 opening bid.

Key Points

• The check, listed as “The Perfect Jobs: Steve Jobs Handwritten & Signed 1976 Apple Computer Company Bank Check,” closed at $63,705.39 after 12 bids, according to Auction Report’s coverage of the Iconic Auctions sale.
• It carries a PSA/DNA “Gem Mint 10” authentication grade, the top tier the service issues for signature condition.
• It was the headline lot in a roughly 1,800-item Iconic Auctions sale spanning sports, entertainment, history and rock memorabilia, including pieces tied to the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
• It’s a different item from Apple’s actual “Check No. 1,” signed by both Jobs and Steve Wozniak, which RR Auction sold separately for $2.4 million in February 2026, per RR Auction’s own results release.

The distinction matters for anyone tracking the market. Apple’s first-ever company check, dual-signed by both co-founders and treated as a de facto founding document, is the kind of one-of-one artifact that commands seven figures. The check Iconic Auctions sold is a later 1976 bank check signed only by Jobs — still from the company’s earliest operating year, still graded at the top of the authentication scale, but a routine business document rather than the literal first transaction on the books. That gap, roughly $2.34 million, is a useful measure of just how much a single word — “first” — is worth in vintage tech paper.

1976 was Apple Computer Company’s founding year, the same stretch of company history that produced the dual-signed “Check No. 1” and other early paperwork now circulating at auction, per Auction Report’s framing of the lot. Signed ephemera from that window — checks, purchase orders, internal memos — has become its own micro-market among collectors, distinct from the splashier auctions built around surviving Apple I computers.

Iconic Auctions did not publicly break down what pushed bidding past $60,000 for a document with no dual signature and no “first” claim attached to it. Twelve separate bids moving the price from $15,000 to $63,705.39, though, suggests more than one buyer was chasing the lot specifically for the PSA/DNA grade and the Jobs signature rather than settling for the opening ask. What the sale does confirm is that Jobs’ handwriting alone, applied to ordinary Apple paperwork from its founding year, now reliably clears well into five figures — a market that barely existed as recently as a decade ago, when Apple ephemera was still treated as a footnote to computer-collecting rather than a category of its own.