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Pokémon Card Tournament: Some cards are worth a lot today
Photo: imago images / ZUMA Wire
Two million dollars.
According to his own statements, YouTuber Logan Paul spent that much at the beginning of the year - not for a new villa, but for several boxes full of Pokémon cards.
The trading cards, which can also be used to play against each other, came onto the market at the end of the 1990s as a supplement to the Gameboy game.
Since then, they have been part of a hype that continues to this day.
Pokémon has been one of the most successful game series for 25 years - digital and analog.
The children who used to trade cards with the fantasy monsters in the schoolyard are now grown - and in the case of Logan Paul, rich enough to trade cards again.
Because the hobby is more expensive today than pocket money allows.
A current booster pack that contains ten random cards does not cost more than ten euros.
But if you want older, no longer manufactured cards, you enter a world dominated by collectors and investors.
A breeze as an investment
Some Pokémon cards have become valuable collectibles.
In July 2020, for example, a particularly valuable card changed hands at an auction - for $ 230,000.
The »Pikachu Illustrator« card shows the series' yellow mascot with a brush in hand.
Only 39 copies of the motif created in 1998 for a competition were printed.
And the more such rare cards become uninteresting for collectors over the years due to material deterioration, the more valuable the well-preserved remainder becomes.
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