PSA 10 Pikachu Birthday White Star 2nd Anniv. sells for $7.8k

PSA 10 Pikachu Birthday White Star 2nd Anniv. sells for $7.8k

Released in November 1998 to celebrate the second anniversary of the Pokémon TCG in Japan, the Pikachu Birthday White Star 2nd Anniversary promo was the first of the “birthday” Pikachu prints. Distributed inside the Japanese All Card Calendar, it features Kagemaru Himeno’s art of Pikachu, with a blank name line for the owner to write their name (presumably).

There are 782 PSA 10 copies, yet prices have spiked hard: one sold for $2.9k in September, then another sale on $8.1k on November 22, with multiple recent sales now above $6k, a sharp jump for a relatively high-pop card.