PARIS — A private buyer on Thursday purchased Pope Francis’ 2013 Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide for about $327,000 at a Bonhams auction in Paris. The price far exceeded the $16,000 to $22,000 presale estimate.

A leather Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket signed by the pontiff sold for $77,485, including fees. Money from the sale of the two items went to benefit a hostel and soup kitchen at the Termini train station in Rome.

“We’re absolutely thrilled that our donation of the motorcycle could result in so much good for the charity,” Maripat Blankenheim, a spokeswoman for Harley-Davidson, said in an interview. “I’m not sure that the company had an expectation about what the bike would get, but if we did, it certainly exceeded it.”

Image Pope Francis signed the Harley's tank. Credit... Dhananjay Khadilkar

Willie Davidson, a former motorcycle designer and the grandson of a Harley-Davidson founder, had given the 1,584-cc Harley to the pope a year ago to mark the the company’s 110th anniversary. Ms. Blankenheim said that Harley-Davidson had intended the gift to be used for charity.