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I was shocked after I sold my Pokemon card collection for £200,000 – here’s how to find out how much yours are worth
I was shocked after I sold my Pokemon card collection for £200,000 – here’s how to find out how much yours are worth
Published on November 30, 2022 at 06:19 PM
A COLLECTION of rare Pokemon cards, which a dad built up over 16 years, has sold for almost £200,000.
Gordon White, 58, managed to save thousands of the trading cards, including rare examples and more than 100 complete sets, before cashing in.
Gordon White collected the cards over 16 yearsHis set sold for almost £200,000Logan Paul gained a world record when he displayed his £3.8million Pokemon card during his pro wrestling debut
The collection included sealed booster boxes, first edition cards and some which showed rare errors in the illustrations or captions.
Gordon, a delivery driver from Livingston, Scotland, was left stunned when his hoard was sold on a bid of £194,990 at Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
His interest in the cards began when his two kids joined a Pokemon trading card league in the ’90s.
He collected them from 1998 and stopped in 2014.
During that period, he also ran his own league and acted as a judge at UK events, where he was given some of his rare cards.
“My kids got really good at the game and, as I was the only parent turning up there all the time and I’d started playing the card game too, I was delegated.
“So I ended up running that league for 16 years and every time a new set came out it cost me in the region of £1,000.
“Some of the cards were then passed back to the kids for various events and tournaments others ended up in my collection. It just went up and up and up.”;
Some of his rarer cards included the Legendary Collection Reverse Holo set including Charizard 3/111 and the Sykridge Reverse Holo set.
Back in the day a set of cards would set you back around £4. So if you have old ones lurking around you could find they are now worth a small fortune â if it’s the right one.
Lockdowns even saw a surge in interest in the retro hobby as people had more time on their hands.
Enthusiasts can send their cards to be graded, valued and sealed by an organisation in America called The Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA).
It will give cards a rating out of 10, with the highest being the most valuable.
Gordon started collecting when his kids joined a trading card league in the 1990sHe revealed that he decided to sell up as neither he nor his kids or grandkids play the trading card game anymore
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