sold for $360,000 at an online auction last week.Collectibles authenticator CGC Trading Cards broadcast the live bidding on Jan.
14 via YouTube, noting that the “presentation” card — one of two prototypes used in marketing and promotion “to demonstrate what an English Pokémon card would look like” — is the only one known to still exist. “This is a historic moment ladies and gentlemen,” the auctioneer said before reaching the ultimate bid.
The buyer was anonymous, while nearly tying the record for the highest amount paid for any English Pokémon card, according to CGC.The test print, commissioned by Wizards of the Coast in 1998, is one-sided, showing a blank space where the Pokémon logo would have been.
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