What Is The Rarest Pokemon Card Ever

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The rarest Pokémon card in the world has sold for over £150,000

Pay Day.

A super rare Pokémon card has sold at an sale in New York for a whopping $195,000.

The Pikachu Illustrator Promo Card is considered "the virtually valuable and rarest Pokémon card in the world". It even features art past Atsuko Nishida - the original illustrator of Pikachu itself.

Don't start rummaging through your former boxes of video game tat only nonetheless, however - this particular Pokémon card only ever had 39 copies released, and only 10 of which are certified by the PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator).

This isn't the first time 1 of these cards has fetched a crazy price at sale, though. In 2016, 1 was sold on ebay for $54,970 (about £43,000) - yet the newly auctioned carte du jour somehow managed to triple that value.

"What makes it and so rare is that it was not sold, but awarded as a prize in an illustration contest through CoroCoro Comic," the card's description on the auction site reads. "This unique card was created specifically for the contest. In the Jan 1998 issue, three commencement place winners won a re-create of the card, as did another twenty second identify winners, with cards awarded in two more contests that year."

This particular card is graded a PSA Mint ix, meaning it'due south in "superb condition" with only one very small-scale flaw. Impressive for a 21 twelvemonth-old piece of bill of fare.

"This is the only card in the long-running collectible card game series to say 'Illustrator' at the top of a Trainer Card," the description continues, "and the only one to comport the pen symbol in the bottom correct corner."

$195,000 works out at just over £150,000 - regardless of what currency you view it in, that's an expensive pika paper.

And while you might not have a Pikachu Illustrator sitting up in your cranium, y'all might find some other fortune making cards in our sis site's guide to the near expensive Pokémon cards.