The Illustrator, Pokemon's most valuable card

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Known as the Pikachu Illustrator or Illustrator, the Pokemon Illustrator is the Pokemon Trading Card Game's most valuable card, selling for more than 230,000 dollars in 2020. Why would someone spend more on this piece of cardboard than a new Aston Martin? We travel back to the late 1990's, and the illustration contest in the popular Japanese children's magazine CoroCoro to find out why.

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