{"id":1016541,"date":"2022-03-10T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/look-first-edition-charizard-pokemon-card-sells-for-336000\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T01:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:20:48","slug":"look-first-edition-charizard-pokemon-card-sells-for-336000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/look-first-edition-charizard-pokemon-card-sells-for-336000\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: First-edition Charizard Pokemon card sells for $336,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/First-edition-Charizard-Pokemon-card-sells-for-336000.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A rare, first-edition Pokemon card that had been expected to sell for $200,000 ended up fetching a high bid of $336,000 in an auction.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Auctions said the Pokemon Trading Card Game Charizard No. 4 First Edition Base Set Trading Card is a highly sought item among collectors due to its being from the first English-language run of Pokemon cards.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The card sold in the auction is one of only 121 known examples to have received a perfect 10 rating from inspectors.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Auctions said the card sold for $336,000, making it the most expensive Pokemon card ever sold by the auction house. The previous record was $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>A 1998 Pikachu &#8220;Illustrator&#8221; Holo promo card previously made headlines in late February when it fetched a $900,000 bid in an action organized by Goldin. The sum is believed to be the highest price ever paid for a Pokemon card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; A rare, first-edition Pokemon card that had been expected to sell for $200,000 ended up fetching a high bid of $336,000 in an auction. Heritage Auctions said the Pokemon Trading Card Game Charizard No. 4 First Edition Base Set Trading Card is a highly sought item among collectors due to its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}