The Air Jordan 1, which was released from 1984-1985, pictured during a preview for "The Rise of the Sneaker Culture" exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015. The resale market for limited edition and rare sneakers is now worth $1 billion. File photo by REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Can you guess how much these rare sneakers cost?

Making Sen$e

The resale market for limited edition and rare sneakers is worth a whopping $1 billion. Sneakerheads pay hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for sought-after pairs. So what makes one pair of kicks more valuable than another?

Sneaker reseller Yuanrun "Z" Zheng, founder of 23penny, among other sneaker sites, says sentimental value and hype drive up prices.

Here are five pairs of sneakers. Can you guess how much they're worth?

Zheng provided the quiz's photos and answers. For more on the sneaker resale market, watch the Making $ense segment on Thursday's PBS NewsHour program.

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