Most expensive Pokemon Card. Guess How much? $100? – no, higher; $1000? no, higher; $10,000? even higher

My dad and I were returning from the temple today and chatting about different things and the question came up as to what is the most expensive Pokemon card?

I am pretty sure that the most expensive Pokemon card is Pikachu Illustrator.

Apparently, only 6 of these were produced. CoroCoro magazine ran a competition for children to design a Pokemon Card. The six winners received one of these superb Holofoil trophy cards.

Cost — Tum-dudum-dum-dum

$20,000.00

The card text says:

We certify that your illustration is an excellent entry in the Pokémon Card Game Illustration Contest. Therefore, we state that you are an Officially Authorized Pokémon Card Illustrator and admire your skill.

The next most expensive card:

The rarest Pokemon card, but it is not the most expensive Pokemon card (I don’t know why) is Pikachu Tournament No 1 Gold Trophy.

The cost of this card, according to Greylight is:

$12,000.00

There are two other trophy cards (only 3 of each were produced) also sell for $10,000+

Source

By the way, you can’t take these numbers too seriously (like everything else on the internet). Bulbopedia says that there were about 30 Pikachu Illustrator cards issued and I saw somewhere else that in 2002, the trophy cards had a book price of $1,500.

I have also heard about the Raichu PreRelease card that is supposed to be the rarest of them all.

The reason this card is rare is because it is an “error” card. The pre-release stamp on this card was placed by mistake.

There are either 8 or 11 of these cards and it hasn’t come up for sale as yet, but if it did, it might be the most expensive pokemon card.

Price: probably between $10,000 and $30,000.

The story behind this card can be found at PokeGym.

Pl. leave a comment if you know of any other expensive Pokemon Card and what is the most expensive Pokemon card you have purchased? The most expensive card I have purchased is Double Rainbow Energy for $6 each (I needed them for my Wailord Deck). I almost bought a Lv.X card for $15 but it didn’t fit in my deck.