A stolen Pokémon card supposedly value as much as £30,000 has been safely returned to its rightful proprietor/coach.
As reported by the BBC, police have said that the theft of a Charizard card befell in Heathfield in East Sussex between 2nd and fifth September 2024. The identical card was then discovered to have been listed on the market on Fb, resulting in a search order being accomplished on an handle in Polegate, roughly 11-12 miles away from the unique location.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on the identical handle. He later admitted to stealing the cardboard and acquired a warning. The cardboard was then returned to its rightful proprietor, with investigation handler PC Alan Russell stating ““It was a precious merchandise which meant quite a bit to the sufferer”. Certainly!
Uncommon Pokémon playing cards have been identified to be value appreciable quantities of cash, so sadly turn out to be prime targets for thieves. Unique base set Charizard playing cards may be value tens of hundreds of kilos, with uncommon ‘shadowless’ first version playing cards bringing in absurd quantities of cash.
Charizard is not probably the most precious Pokémon card, nonetheless. That exact accolade belongs to the illusive Illustrator Pikachu, which was bought in 2022 for over $5 million by a widely known YouTuber.
The Pokémon Firm has not too long ago launched Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket for cell gadgets, with the app supposedly raking in over $3 million in income daily since its launch. It permits customers to open a number of digital Pokémon card booster packs every day, with the choice to battle with AI and on-line opponents.
