Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

Pokémon cards do not have security features. They can easily be copied by any two-bit counterfeiter.

Also, the Pokémon Company can print as many as they like.

Seeing high value in them seems like a risky investment to me.

Does anyone else think it's odd that he had all these rare cards in mint condition and just... forgot about them? If you care enough to get complete sets of rare cards, how do you not care enough to know what you have?

This isn't the usual "I have some old cards but they're all trash" story every one of us has had at some point.

As a child I had considerably more than 42 Pokemon cards, from that time range, and all in excellent condition with several "shinies"... all of which went into the washing machine because I left them in my pocket. Depressing.

I had a big book of cards that I never sold but they somehow disappeared when I left for the service.

Pokemon cards are today's latest ponzi scheme and have an infinite printing supply without any utility or valid use case whatsoever.

They are today's beanie babies and is a complete waste of money. Even stablecoins have a better use case than this over inflated garbage.