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Rare Pokémon card sells for $230,000 - Kyng - 07-23-2020

Pikachu

https://www.cnet.com/news/pokemon-card-sells-for-record-breaking-230000/ Pikachu

You can do a lot with $230,000. You could buy a tricked out Tesla Model X and still have enough left over for a home deposit. In many states, you could actually just buy a house. Or you could buy the world's rarest Pokemon card. Up to you.

The Illustrator Pikachu card is famously coveted in Pokemon Trading Card circles and an American buyer just dropped $233,000 (25 million yen) on a mint condition one at Japanese auction house ZenPlus. It's a record-breaking sale, as the most anyone else had spent on a Pokemon card until now was $195,000. That was last year and it was also for an Illustrator Pikachu card.

The reason Illustrator Pikachu is so valuable is because only 39 were ever made. Unlike regular rare cards, you couldn't find this one in booster packs. Instead, it was awarded to winners of a comic contest in 1998. With the franchise still ultra popular, it's not unusual to see Pokemon Trading Cards sell for over five figures. Spare a thought at this moment for the guy who spent $60,000 on a rare card last year only for it to get lost in the mail.

Wow - even for an ultra-rare card, that does sound like a lot

. Then again, I suppose there are tens of thousands (perhaps even millions) of people who collect these cards, and wouldn't consider their collection to be 'complete' unless they had one of these cards.

I do hope this one doesn't get lost in the mail...

RE: Rare Pokémon card sells for $230,000 - Poppy - 07-23-2020

I have 4 saved from when they came out.

TV/Animation Edition

Wonder what there worth?

RE: Rare Pokémon card sells for $230,000 - Kyng - 10-12-2020

I don't know

. Could be worth quite a bit, though!

Anyway, another one has sold for a very similar price. This time, rapper Logic has bought a 1st edition Charizard for $226,000 (£173,000):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-54507760

At that price, I do hope he enjoys it!

RE: Rare Pokémon card sells for $230,000 - Shiny Star - 10-13-2020

(07-23-2020, 08:06 PM)Poppy Wrote: I have 4 saved from when they came out.

TV/Animation Edition

Wonder what there worth?

Yikes. I may be wrong but my sister used to have one of the first Blastoise back in the day but we stopped playing cards because it went missing. I wonder where it went... hm... might be able to buy a house if we had it.

RE: Rare Pokémon card sells for $230,000 - Poppy - 10-13-2020

Quote:Poppy Wrote:I have 4 saved from when they came out.

TV/Animation Edition

Wonder what there worth?