{"id":472074,"date":"2026-02-16T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:15:08","slug":"logan-pauls-rare-pokemon-card-becomes-most-expensive-ever-sold-in-record-setting-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472074\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul&#8217;s rare Pokemon card becomes most expensive ever sold in record-setting auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have seen the card around the neck of Paul previously as he made his WrestleMania debut in 2022 wearing the piece when he teamed with veteran WWE superstar The Miz.<\/p>\n<p>He originally bought the card from Marwan Dubsy in Dubai, trading a PSA Grade 9 Pikachu Illustrator card and an extra $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 39 were given out to illustration contest winners in 1998, and this was a purchase for the only one in the world that has been graded a perfect 10,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pikachu Illustrator is extremely popular with collectors due to it being designed by Atsuko Nishida (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/japan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>), who is credited as the original creator of Pikachu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pikachu-illustrator-glass.jpg\" alt=\"Pikachu Illustrator card behind glass protective case\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was never originally sold and was only released as a prize in a 1998 illustration contest.<\/p>\n<p>Graded by the Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), cards are given numbers based on their attributes such as perfectly rounded edges, sharp focus and full, original gloss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/collections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read about more people who&#8217;ve collected record-breaking things in our dedicated Collections section.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their grading works from 0 to 10, with 10 being a &#8216;Gem Mint&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the event at Goldin&#8217;s headquarters in Philadelphia, New Jersey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/united-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a>, there was an anxious wait to find out how much the card would eventually sell for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may have seen the card around the neck of Paul previously as he made his WrestleMania debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8532,88,35917,14544,105454,5260,219014,7240,157730],"class_list":{"0":"post-472074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-guinness-world-records","11":"tag-logan-paul","12":"tag-most-expensive","13":"tag-pokemon","14":"tag-pokemon-card","15":"tag-sale","16":"tag-trading-card"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}