Rare Blastoise Pokemon Card Goes for A Ton of Money at Auction
As Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” The increasing value ofPokemontrading cards would likely be tacked onto that statement were he around today, as a particular Water-type card has just sold for the most expensive single Pokemon card, ever. Beginning in its native Japan in 1996, thePokemon TCGcame to the United States three years later in 1999. The “Pokemania” craze the franchise created stateside more than 20 years ago doesn’t seem to have subsided, as a first-edition sealed booster box recentlysold for nearly half a million at auction....