It isn't news to say that Pokemon cards are absurdly popular. However, it is more noteworthy when one of them sells for a mere... oh, let's say, $1.4 million. You know, pocket change. Poke-change, if you will.
Late last week, one of the only "Pikachu Illustrator" cards in existence from the early days of one of the best card games sold for $1,406,250 at Heritage Auctions (as spotted by our friends at Dexerto). With only 39 copies ever distributed as part of a series of contests, it's amongst the rarest Pokemon cards around. Indeed, the only version graded with a higher quality than this sold for an absurd $16,492,000 according to Heritage Auctions. That marks this as "the most valuable card ever sold at auction."
