Trophy Pikachu is one of the rarest Pokémon cards around. No wonder why a collector has now spent a real fortune on it.
Hamburg – How much money would you be willing to spend on a trading card? For some collectors, there seems to be no stopping printed paper and without hesitation the money clip is pulled out. However, one of these collectors has now shot down the bird, or perhaps rather the rat: For a rare Pokémon card showing a Pikachu, he paid a measly 300,000 dollars.
| Name | Pokémon TCG |
| First release | 1996 |
| Minimum age | 10 |
| Series | Pokémon |
| Editor | Nintendo, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro |
| Genre | Trading Card Game |
Pokémon Cards: This rare Pikachu sold for $300,000
Why is the Pokémon card so special? Before our own collection is rummaged through, we unfortunately have to give the all-clear. The Pokémon card, which changed hands for $300,000, was no ordinary one that could be drawn in normal Bosster packs. Here in Germany, no one is likely to be in possession of the rare card. Rather, Trophy Pikachu, as the card is called, is a Pokémon card that was only issued to winners of the first TCG tournament in 1997.
Pokémon: This card sold © for $300,000 PSA | The Pokémon Company
So if you didn't happen to have played the Pokémon Trading Card Game at tournament level in Japan back then, you probably won't be in possession of a Trophy Pikachu. In addition, according to PSA, a specialist in so-called grading, i.e. the valuation of rare trading cards, the card was only printed 100 times by the Pokémon Company. The cards are additionally adapted to the place achieved in the tournament. The Trophy Pikachu, which recently sold for $300,000, was the trading card that the tournament's third-place finisher received.
PSA graded the condition of the card with an 8. 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. For some years now, Pokémon cards have been experiencing a true renaissance: streamers like Logan Paul have invested a small fortune in the coveted Pokémon cards. In America, even a cunning employee tried to grab valuable holo cards after printing and resell them.
