The world of pokemon cards it is one in which the amount of money being handled has long since ceased to make sense. The figures that can be paid for some pieces are astronomical and we are probably going to witness a historic sale with Pikachu as protagonist.
And it is that Pikachu Illustrator is a practically impossible letter to obtain for fans of collecting. We are talking about a letter that was awarded as a prize in the contests of the Japanese magazine CoroCoro Comic between 1997 and 1998. Only 39 units worldwide, to which must be added two that emerged in 2020 by Yuichi Konno, co -Pokemon JCC creator. That is, 41 cards in total that are worth their weight in gold.
Now, it’s time to take out your wallet for a walk if you have what it takes to fight it out at auction. A Pikachu Illustrator card has turned up on eBay with a starting bid starting at $480,000, which is actually quite a bit less than its full value. We must start from the point that it has received a Near-Mint 8 rating for its state and that it is estimated that its value is 1.5 million dollars
We will see if by March 3, the date on which the auction ends, we have a buyer and with what number, but there are precedents to think that the final number will be very high. As indicated in Dicebreaker, Logan Paul paid 5.275 million dollars for a Pikachu Illustrator, being the most expensive Pokémon card in history. The record for an auction on eBay is held by another unit that sold for $375,000 in 2021, so that amount will already be surpassed with the first offer.
