Logan Paul recently listed his $5M Pikachu card at auction. It seems that the bids for it are already skyrocketing. It is a well-known fact that Paul is a renowned Pokémon card collector, having purchased his Pikachu card in 2022 for a staggering $5.3 million. The podcaster announced that the rarest and most valuable Pikachu card is officially up for auction.
Logan Paul’s rare Pokémon Pikachu illustrator card has officially hit auction
Logan Paul has put his $5M rare Pokémon Pikachu PSA 10 Illustrator card up for auction. The YouTuber announced this on his official X account, accompanied by a video. He wrote, “Bidding is now open on Goldin Auctions.” Elsewhere in the caption, he also described it as “the Mona Lisa of collectibles.” “The most famous card in human history,” he added.
Furthermore, Paul detailed in the caption, “I’m selling it with the $75k custom Pokémon chain, and I’ll hand-deliver it to the buyer. Along with other epic TCG lots, this will be the greatest Pokémon auction of our generation. (I’ll definitely be bidding on some of the other items.)”
Paul notified his fans that the auction closes next month on February 15. He also added that he will be live-streaming yet another 1st Edition box break. Ultimately, he posed a rhetorical question to his fans. He asked, “What do you think it’ll sell for?!”
In a follow-up tweet, Paul wrote, “It’s already at $1.6M with 40 days left.”
For those unversed, in 1998, Atsuko Nishida, the original creator of Pikachu, awarded 39 copies of the Pokémon card to winners of an illustration contest.
Paul purchased the rare Pikachu card in Dubai in 2021. According to Guinness World Records, this transaction is listed as the most expensive Pokémon trading card ever sold in a private transaction. At the time, Paul said, “I have never spent this much money on a physical asset. Holding it in person is a whole different experience than seeing it online. I’ve never held one before.”
The Impaulsive creator wore the rare and valuable card like a necklace during his entrance at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022. In an interview with Fox Business Network’s The Big Money Show, Paul revealed, “This is the rarest & most valuable Pokémon card in the world. Pokémon as an asset class has outperformed the stock market by upwards of 3000% in the last 20 years.”
