A shiny Charizard worth $200,000 has shown up in California after spending the past five months lost🐎 in the mail.

Pokemon cards are worth a lot of money nowadays. If only all of us who first hopped aboard the bandwagon during the late '90s had known that at the time. Even though Pokemon cards remain popular to this day, countless collections 🃏will have been thrown out or lost over the past two decades or more. Some of the cards that survived are now worth a lo🐠t of money.

The world's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rarest and most valuable Pokemon card is actually pretty boring. The Pikachu Illustrator card. Only a handful were ever made especially for competition winners, and not all of them have been found. Another very rare and far more exciting Pokemon c💟ard is shiny Charizard. It's also one that many collectors from the '90s will have had in their 🍰own collection.

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First-edition shiny Charizards are so sought after that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rapper Logic r🍒ecently paid north of $220,000 for one. This is why when Leonhart's shiny Charizard disappeared in the mail, the Yo🐻uTuber did absolutely everything he could to track it down. Five months later, after having given up all hope, the unthinkable has happened. PSA Card, who Leonhart sent the card to, has confirmed that the card has arrived.

Leonhart received an unexpected email from PSA informing him that his rare Nidoking had arrived. Since the Charizard was 🧸in the same package, he hoped that the very valuable shiny was there too. Moments later, a second email arrived confirming that the Chariza🙈rd card had completed its long journey. In a video revealing the news, Leonhart has detailed everything he did to try and find the card.

Leonhart even paid a visit to the distribution center in Texas where the card was last confirmed to have been ba🃏ck in Mꦰarch. Its whereabouts between then and now and how it got from Texas to California may forever remain a mystery. Leonhart's good news got even better once the card had been valued. When he sent it, the Charizard was worth $55,000. Over the past five months, its value has risen to $200,000.

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