"On February 15, a weeks-long auction of Logan Paul's Pokémon card collection came to an end, with winning bids exceeding the market prices for the listed cards by sometimes as much as 70 times. The standout among them was the PSA 10 Illustrator Pikachu, one of only 41 of the card ever printed, and the only one to have been graded a perfect 10; it sold for a record-smashing $16,492,000."
"It's AJ Scaramucci, the venture capitalist son of financier and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who bought the card for $13.3 million, and then paid the extra $3.2 million in auction house Goldin's fees. Even more unusually, Scaramucci is said to have "surprised" Goldin by being in the company's headquarters in person at the moment the sale completed. As Goldin put it in a press release,"
On February 15 a weeks-long auction of Logan Paul's Pokémon card collection ended with winning bids exceeding market prices for listed cards by sometimes as much as 70 times. The PSA 10 Illustrator Pikachu, one of only 41 printed and the only copy graded a perfect 10, sold for $16,492,000, more than three times any previous Pokémon card sale. The identified buyer, AJ Scaramucci, paid $13.3 million plus $3.2 million in Goldin fees and surprised the auction house by appearing at Goldin HQ for a handover photoshoot. Questions arose about surrounding activity and the use of prediction market gambling.
Read at Kotaku
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