High Stakes Schoolyard Trading Here
One of the rarest Pokemon trading cards in history was just traded for multiple rare Pokemon cards, estimated to be worth over $900,000 in total value.
The card in question is the Pikachu Illustrator card, a promo card only distributed by Japan's
CoroCoro magazine in 1998. The card was a reward for an illustrator contest, which saw young Japanese artists not only receive the Illustrator card, but also a promo card with their winning artwork on it as well. It is estimated that about 39 copies of the promo card were awarded in 1998, with only 19 of them in existence thanks to PSA grading.