
It came in a special frame and box marking the anniversary, which you’d hope might keep it safe given the price tag and rarity.Īlthough the card recreates the original Pikachu card - including the Pocket Monsters Card Game logo on the back and its Japanese text on the front - it’s actually not legal for use in tournaments. If you won, you were given the chance to buy a copy of the limited-edition card for 216,000 yen - or around $2,081/£1,700. The only way to get a copy of the golden Pikachu was to enter a lottery held in 2016.

To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Aren’t you at least a little curious? There might be a retirement fund waiting in your attic. Interest in Pokémon and the Pokémon card game has only continued to grow in recent years, with multiple card sales at auction setting new records in 20 alone, so there’s never been a better time to rifle through your collection and see if you own one of the rarest Pokémon cards of all time. That's why we've put together this list of the rarest and most expensive Pokémon cards, so you know for certain what's hiding in your attic.

And valuable really is the word, with nearly eight tons of counterfeit cards being recently seized in China - in Short, Pokémon cards are big business. There's a huge amount of Pokémon out there and even more Pokémon Trading Cards, raging from common pidgeys to rare and valuable legendary cards, or even better.
