The Trophy Pikachu is a Pokémon card that was only issued to winners of the first TCG tournament in 1997. The card was only printed 100 times by the Pokémon Company.
The Trophy Pikachu was the trading card that the tournament's third-place finisher received. This makes the Trophy Pikachu sold the best-preserved Trophy Pikachu currently known to the public – which partly explains the daring selling price of the card. In America, even a cunning employee tried to grab valuable holo cards after printing and resell them.