A Charizard worth half a millಌion dollars has been pilfered from an insurance broker’s private collection. Christopher Polydorou, 62, filed a police report with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office that says his prized card has gone missing and is presumed stolen.
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In addition to the Charizard card, whose value was estimated based on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recent auction sales of similar cards, Polydorou noted three unopened boxes of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon cards were also stolen. Those boxes could potentially have been just as valuable as the Charizard as they’re all 20 years old, with one being a Jap꧃anese edition. Unfortunately for Polydorou, his collection was not ensured.
The value of Pokemon cards has skyrocketed in recent years, largely thanks to millionaire YouTubers pushing prices up over the course of the pandemic. Case in point, Logan Paul is now in t🔯he Guiness Book of World Re💃cords for paying over $5 million (through a combination of trades and cash) for a Pikachu Illustrator. To put that into perspective, a very similar card 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sold for $900,000 at auction.
Logan then t168澳洲幸运5开奖网:urned his card into an NFT, giving his community majority ownership and ultimately deciding whether he can wear it during wrestling matches. This all came after Logan was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:scammed out of $3.5 million when he bought a box of fake Pokemon cards (he even💛tually got his money back, though).
With Pokemon cards reaching ridiculous value, thefts have become increasingly common. Most recently, a Minnesota collectibles store suffered a break-in where thieves ran off w🙈ith $250,000 in Pokemon products, most of them being Pokemon cards.