Awarded to winners of a 1997-98 CoroCoro illustration contest, the Pikachu Illustrator was never sold in packs; roughly 39 copies are known and one PSA 10 exists. Its $5,275,000 private sale set the Guinness World Record for a Pokémon card. Benchmark: private sale (Guinness-recorded), 2021-07, a documented public sale, not an estimate. Graded trading cards trade per-card on tokenized venues such as Courtyard (Polygon, Brink's vault) and Collector Crypt (Solana, PWCC/ALT vaults); this reference listing is for research.
The rarest Pokémon card in existence, a Guinness world record.
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The rarest Pokémon card in existence, a Guinness world record. The benchmark is a real, dated auction record (private sale (Guinness-recorded)); treat it as the card's documented high-water mark for that grade, not a live quote. Collectibles reprice at every sale.
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- This listing is based on the issuer's official disclosures. Prism has not independently confirmed these disclosures on-chain.
- Source
- Documented public auction result (private sale (Guinness-recorded)) and grading-house census data
- Last verified
- Sep 7, 2026
- Custody
- Owner custody, or venue vaults (Brink's via Courtyard; PWCC/ALT via Collector Crypt) when tokenized
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- Underlying
- 1998 Pikachu Illustrator (PSA 10), the physical graded card.
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It is the documented record sale for this card at the stated grade (private sale (Guinness-recorded), 2021-07). Collectibles have no ticker; each sale sets the next benchmark.