We're getting pretty used to seeing Pokémon cards selling for ridiculous amounts of money these days, and this latest case is another prime example of exactly that.
Goldin Auctions recently held its April Premium auction, selling off a number of highly valued trading cards to eager collectors. The standout sale was a LeBron James 2003 Exquisite Rookie Patch card which sold for an absolutely bonkers $1.72 million, but that's not what we're interested in here.
Yes, a Pokémon card sold for the much more reasonable sum of $247,230 (seriously, where do people find this kind of money and can we get in on the action please?). The card in question was a copy of the SM Black Star #TPCi01 Tsunekazu Ishihara GX Promo Card, a very special 2017 release that was originally distributed to The Pokémon Company employees to celebrate the company president’s 60th birthday.
In near mint condition and even hand-signed by Ishihara himself, you can see why such a card would interest keen collectors.
Of course, we've seen even higher sales in recent times – like the Charizard card that sold for over $300,000 and the rare Blastoise card that went for $360,000. No wonder people are resorting to buying shares in Pokémon cards these days.
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No Tajiri, I sleep.
It just only a card.
For me it's not worthy to trade my hundred thousand dollars for a card with autograph from someone.
That gargantuan amount of money can be used for something useful, for helping peoples as example.
That card is broken. But, what do you do after you use your gx attack? You have no other moves
in any case it's better than buying an nft
What a cool promo card. Interesting how it's got an english text
looks like a meme
Damm that some crazy card lol
TCG player, what is a “gift” in the game (like that you can get from this case GX move)
It’s a piece of card, shows what a horrible, greedy world we live in.
.....What is with that face?
@Tantani If I remember correctly, each player lays out 6 random cards from their deck to be used as "gifts", doing certain things will allow you to take a gift, like beating an opponent's Pokemon. It seems this card just lets you take them all when played with how many coin flips it gives you.
@Tourtus oh yeah, didn’t know it is called gift
This obviously a meme way overpowered card but this is pretty cool
If you put it down it seems to be impossible to beat and win you the game the moment it has the 2 energy cards
@Xiovanni Then what is the card referring to? It's been ages since I played the trading card game.
The power creep is insane with cards like these.
@Tourtus presents, as in... like birthday gifts.
I think the GX attack is both a nod to his age as well as a subtle joke on a common graphics card being the GTX 1060. All in all this is kinda neat.
I never thought Pokemon cards would gain so much money, especially a promotional card. This has really been an insane year for trading cards.
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