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Aoki’s Illustrator currently holds the record for the highest public ungraded sale, however the highest public graded sale is held by a 1997 (1995 copyright date) Blue Back, No Number Topsun Charizard which sold this past week for just over $493,000. It is widely expected amongst serious Pokemon collectors that this Illustrator will set a new public sale price record for a single Pokemon card. The degree of difference between the Japanese and western market is unclear. Aoki graded the card and it achieved a PSA ‘Mint 9.’ However, the true market value of graded Pikachu Illustrators is expected to be much higher than the purchase prices in Japan. The Pikachu Illustrator card was later released through other contests, with 39 total cards in existence. The most recent copy was acquired ungraded by Steve Aoki for $420,000. The beloved Pikachu Illustrator was given to the first and second place winners of the CoroCoro Pokemon Card Game Illustration Contest in 1998, with 23 cards issued during the competition.
Given the astronomical prices involved, it is incredibly difficult to secure someone willing to middle the transaction.ĭespite these challenges, Pikachu Illustrators have been selling for record prices recently. It is often necessary to have an in-person middleman to initiate the purchase and transfer the funds. The vast majority of Pikachu Illustrators which have come up for sale have been listed on Japanese-exclusive marketplaces like Yahoo Japan Auctions and Zenplus, which are difficult to navigate for individuals residing outside of Japan. On the card front, contestants received a special. each of them also received a copy of the Pikachu Illustrator card as an additional prize.
3) 1998 Japanese Promo Pikachu Illustrator. This auction is especially exciting as it represents the first public auction of a Pikachu Illustrator on the western market in years. Given that the market responded with a 360,000 selling price for this card, I can only imagine what it would have sold for had Charizard been on the front.
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