(CNN) — At one. At two o’clock. Sold! A rare first-issue 1999 Pokemon Charizard No. 4 card sold for $336,000 at auction on Thursday.
The Charizard card, sold by Heritage Auctions, drew attention because it is from the first English printing of the game and had received a perfect PSA GEM-MT 10 rating. According to the auction house, it is one of 121 that have received that rating.
The sale was part of a largest trading card game auction, which included cards from Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! In total, the auction fetched more than $3.7 million.
“This auction, especially the trophy-level cards, was exceptionally successful,” said Jesus Garcia, director of trading card game consignment at Heritage Auctions, in a statement.
“This sale reinforced the fact that the demand for Pokémon cards continues to rise. We expected Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering to do well, and they did.”
Since their introduction in the 1990s, Pokémon cards have made a comeback and even sparked a sales frenzy.
Last week, a Georgia man was sentenced to prison for using covid-19 relief funds to buy a Charizard Pokémon card, the US Department of Justice reported in a report. release. He bought the card for $57,789.
In February, Goldin Auctions sold a rare card from Pocket Monsters Japanese Promo Illustrator Holographic Pikachu de 1998 for $900,000. Goldin says it was an “all-time record public sale for any Pokemon card.”
