PSA 10 Portugese XY Pikachu promo sells for $7.5k

PSA 10 Portugese XY Pikachu promo sells for $7.5k

This card comes from the Pikachu EX Red and Blue Collection Box. Although English is generally the most expensive version in a PSA 10 this card, other languages don’t fall far behind in price. The English copy is in the same range as Portuguese and the Japanese copy goes for about half. Despite being much less common or perhaps as a result, sales like this prove that language is no barrier to an increase in value especially for promo cards of very popular Pokemon. There are only 8 in a PSA 10 for Portuguese, 58 in English, and 1650 in Japanese.

This might be one case where the Japanese version is significantly less because the non-Japanese versions came in collection boxes which had a higher chance to damage the cards inside. (Quick note: The Portuguese version of the promo reportedly comes in the Red and Blue Collection Box manufactured for Portugal but from what I researched it didn’t seem to contain this particular Pikachu promo which is not to say that it does not but I just wasn’t able to confirm visually).