No, your eyes don’t deceive you – a small piece of cardboard has just sold at auction for a whopping $230,000.
The auction, which was purchased by an American bidder through ZenPlus, is believed to be the highest price that a Pokémon card has ever officially been sold for and no, you almost certainly don’t have a copy of your own laying around in a dusty collection folder somewhere. Distributed in only a small quantity to winners of a Japanese comic contest back in 1998, as low as 10 so-called Pokémon Illustrator cards are believed to still exist out in the wild, so to speak, accounting for its unprecedented value.
And just in case its scarcity wasn’t enough to pique the interest of wealthy collectors, the promotional card features art by Atsuko Nishida – the original illustrator of Pikachu. As The Pokémon Company’s iconic mascot, it’s hardly a surprise that...
The auction, which was purchased by an American bidder through ZenPlus, is believed to be the highest price that a Pokémon card has ever officially been sold for and no, you almost certainly don’t have a copy of your own laying around in a dusty collection folder somewhere. Distributed in only a small quantity to winners of a Japanese comic contest back in 1998, as low as 10 so-called Pokémon Illustrator cards are believed to still exist out in the wild, so to speak, accounting for its unprecedented value.
And just in case its scarcity wasn’t enough to pique the interest of wealthy collectors, the promotional card features art by Atsuko Nishida – the original illustrator of Pikachu. As The Pokémon Company’s iconic mascot, it’s hardly a surprise that...
- 7/24/2020
- by Joe Pring
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