Pokemon card sold at auction for world-record $16.49 million

A rare Pokemon card fetched a record $16,492,000 including the buyer's premium on Monday in New Jersey, making it the most expensive Pocket Monster trading card ever sold in a public auction.The Pokemon Illustrator card, which depicts the iconic cartoon character Pikachu, has a hobby card authenticator rating of 10, the highest possible grade. It is one of only 39 of the illustration cards given to winners of a 1998 drawing contest held by the Japanese magazine CoroCoro Comic.The card was consigned to the New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions house by Logan Paul, an American social media influen…READ FULL ARTICLE