Admit it: you wish you kept that old Pokémon map collection, don’t you?
But chances are you’ve never had one rare card in mind: a holographic Blastoise sold at an online auction last week for $ 360,000.
Collectibles Authors CGC Trading Cards Broadcast the Live Bid via YouTube on January 14, noting that the “presentation” card – one of the two prototypes used in marketing and promotion “to show how an English Pokémon card would look like “- the only one. known to still exist.
“This is a historic moment ladies and gentlemen,” the auctioneer said before reaching the final bid. The buyer was anonymous, while according to CGC he tied the record for the highest amount paid for any English Pokémon card.
The test print, commissioned by Wizards of the Coast in 1998, is one-sided and shows an empty space where the Pokémon logo would have been. Cardmaker Cartamundi has produced other similar Blastoise cards, some of which feature designs for “Magic: The Gathering” – another game also distributed by the Wizards brand.
The second blastoise card with a white top is ‘unknown’, CGC said.
Late last year some Charizard cards sold for $ 369,000 each at Goldin Auctions. That beats the previous record, held by rapper and apparently Pokémon collector Logic, who dropped more than $ 220,000 on a Charizard card of the same edition.
“The first record was set last month,” CGC wrote, “which showed how hot the trading card market is getting, and CGC trading cards have added fuel through expert certification services.”