Logan Paul Says He'll Hand Deliver the Most Expensive Pokémon Card if You Buy It From Him at Auction — and the Price Is Already More Than $2 Million

The astir costly Pokémon paper successful the satellite has been enactment up for merchantability by Logan Paul, the wrestler and influencer who antecedently paid $5.3 cardinal for it.

Paul's mint condition, PSA 10-rated Pikachu Artist holds the Guinness World Record arsenic the astir costly Pokémon trading paper successful beingness — but it seems similar the paper could present beryllium sold for an adjacent higher amount.

If you person a fewer cardinal dollars spare to marque a bid, Paul has said he'll adhd to the card's worth by throwing successful a bejeweled concatenation (which helium says is worthy different $75,000) and manus present it to the auction's eventual winner. Paul wore the paper and concatenation during his WWE debut astatine WrestleMania 38, and again for his bout against Anthony Joshua successful Miami past month.

Logan Paul and his $5.3 cardinal Pikachu Illustrator card. Image credit: Goldin, Bradley Rutledge/WWE via Getty.

Whether each of this does yet adhd to the card's worth oregon not, the merchantability via auction tract Goldin has already attracted involvement — with aboriginal bids up to $2.1 cardinal and 39 days inactive to go.

Why is this paper truthful expensive? Only 40 copies of the Pikachu Illustrator paper were ever manufactured, and fixed distant to winners of a 1998 Japanese instrumentality contest. Of these, lone 1 has been fixed the unsurpassable PSA 10 prime standing — and it's this paper that Paul bought backmost successful 2021 successful an speech for a lower-grade Pikachu Illustrator (valued astatine $1.275 million) alongside $4 cardinal successful cash.

In the ranks of costly collectible paper crippled sales, Paul's $5.3 cardinal paper stands respective cardinal higher than thing else, including a Magic: The Gathering Black Lotus sold successful 2024 for $3 cardinal successful bitcoin. The lone question present is however precocious this caller auction reaches.

Cannily, Paul has acceptable the merchantability to extremity adjacent month, successful the run-up to the 30th day of the Pokémon franchise, erstwhile excitement astir the marque volition beryllium astatine its peak. Fans are expecting a large announcement by The Pokémon Company, with caller video games and a 10th procreation of the franchise's creatures anticipated, alongside much details of the promising-looking Pokémon beingness simulation spin-off Pokémon Pokopia. Paul, meanwhile, is apt anticipating a steadfast payday.

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