The Blue-Eyes White Dragon 20th Anniversary Gold Edition Card was first announced in 2018, is limited to just 500 cards, and costs 200,000 yen (1,800 US dollars).). At a recent auction in China, the price suddenly rose to over $ 13 million.
Quality. That is much!
The numbered cards were originally only sold through Konami’s online shop in Japan and launched in February 2019.
According to Abema times, ANN news, and The Huffington Post Japan, The card was originally confiscated in a corruption case from a court in Anhui Province, China. SCMP adds that the auction sold assets belonging to a man sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement nearly $ 10.8 million from a government fund.
The card was put on an auction site on June 21 at around 4 p.m. Other goods owned by the man Includes multiple Nintendo Switches and a diamond and gold-studded PlayStation 4.
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However, the card does not have a certificate of authenticity and The Huffington Post added that it is unclear whether the card is genuine or not. That is actually wrong The point. The important thing is how wild the bid was – really wild.
In minutes, bids reached $ 77,000. By doing Home stretch, there were over 2,000 bids, with bid amounts reaching sky high. On the evening of the 22nd the tender was up to $ 13.4 million.
ANN news reported that Yu-Gi-Oh! is popular in Japan but doesn’t seem popular enough to fetch these prices. It definitely seems like something strange was going on!
The auction site noted that the bids were “significantly different from the actual value of the card” and that “speculative, malicious bids” may have been driving the numbers up. The item was then suddenly pulled and it is not certain whether the auction will take legal action against false bidders.
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