Reportedly if you want to catch them all when it comes to Pokémon Trading Cards then the price just went up considerably, after a collector paid $195,000 (£151,632) for the ultra rare Pikachu Illustrator promo card. Meanwhile only 39 copies of the card were ever released, as a prize in a drawing competition in japan, and only 10 of them are known to be in circulation by fans.
Furthermore current reports suggest the new owner is happy with his purchase, which is more than can be said for the collector that bought a different rare card, for £47,900, earlier in the year, only to have it get lost in the post. Further the last time the same card was sold on eBay it went for $54,970 (£42,745), so this new auction represents quite the mark up and the card is graded a PSA Mint 9 and is said to be in ‘superb condition’. PSA stands for Professional sports Authenticator, which apparently is a thing that exists.
The auction site says ‘This is the only card in the long-running collectible card game series to say ‘Illustrator’ at the top of a Trainer Card, and the only one to bear the pen symbol in the bottom right corner and in case you thought we were making any of this up’.
