A rare Pokémon card has been sold for a record-breaking amount.
On February 23rd, the Japanese promo card ‘Pikachu Illustrator Holo’ was auctioned for $900,000 USD (about $1.14 million CAD).
What the T206 Honus Wagner is to baseball cards, this Pikachu-Holo Illustrator essentially is to Pokémon cards.
Fewer than 40 copies exist, with 24 of them currently graded by PSA, and this *Pop 2* PSA 7 made some history last night over at @GoldinCo. 📈 pic.twitter.com/LfZLWDXJQC
— PSAcard (@PSAcard) February 24, 2022
The reason? The card, featuring artwork of Pikachu holding art supplies as drawn by original designer Atsuko Nishida, is extremely rare. According to Dicebreaker, only 41 of these cards have ever been made, with 39 of them originally being offered as rewards for readers of the Japanese CoroCoro Comic between 1997 and 1998.
For context, the previous record sale for this same card was $375,000 USD (about $475,000 CAD) in February 2020.
If you have any Pokémon cards from the ’90s, you might want to get them graded.
Image credit: The Pokémon Company
Via: Polygon
