Pikachu Illustrator card sells for $16,492,000 at auction

A Pikachu Illustrator card sold at auction for 16,492,000 United States dollars. The seller was Logan Paul. The card is a Pokémon trading card. The price broke the record for the most expensive collectible card ever sold.

Pokémon cards are collectible game cards from the Pokémon franchise. The Illustrator card is a specific rare printing, and this sale concerned one such card. An auction sells to the highest bidder. The report gave the hammer price as 16,492,000 dollars and named Paul as the person who sold it.

A record for the most expensive collectible card means the price exceeded every earlier public sale of a trading or collectible card, as the report stated it. The account did not name the previous record holder or the previous price. It did not name the buyer. The milestone was the new high, not a catalog of past sales.

Logan Paul is a public figure who brought the card to auction. The report did not describe how he acquired it or what he paid. It also did not say where the auction house was located. The commercial fact was the sale price and the record.

Collectible-card prices depend on rarity, condition, and who is willing to bid. None of those details beyond the identity of the card and the seller were filled in. Sixteen million four hundred ninety-two thousand dollars was the full figure, not a rounded estimate. The currency was United States dollars.

The Pikachu Illustrator card sold by Logan Paul fetched 16,492,000 dollars. That sum set the record for a collectible card. The buyer was not named. The auction result was the cultural and commercial news of the sale.