Overview
- The card sold for roughly $16.5 million US, estimated at about $22 million CAD, after weeks on the block and closed on Monday.
- Goldin Auctions’ Peter Petipas of Whitbourne, N.L., called participating in the sale “kind of surreal” and described an in-room spectacle with a gong marking each bid.
- Petipas said CEO Ken Goldin had long urged Logan Paul to consign the card before Paul ultimately did so with the firm.
- Only a few dozen Pikachu Illustrator cards are believed to exist, and Paul’s copy was described as the only one highly graded by PSA.
- Paul originally purchased the card in 2021 for $5.275 million US, as interest in Pokémon—one of the world’s top-grossing media franchises—continues to fuel high-end prices.