PSA (card graders) and PCGS (coin graders) are both owned by collectors universe. Precious metals minting process meets trading card type collectible. The crossover appeal between the two subsidiary companies has probably been the topic of a collectors universe owners wet dream.
Hell just imagine a PCGS 70/ PSA 10 CAC verified gold pikachu card.
My wallet howeverā¦
Greetz,
Quuador
The 2nd definition of poor,
Poor: What Nintendo would be without Pokemon.
The 3rd definition of poor,
Poor: What pokesynd looks like after he gets a credit card approval and goes on yahoo japan 
I really want dis card though, so buy mi one smprattican (ć„ļæ£ Ā³ļæ£)ć„
Iām going to save you all a lot of money.
If this item is not ālimitedā then IT IS A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY if itās 500.00 gold value and you pay 2000.00. Even if you get 1500.00 in gold for 2000.00 itās a ripoff.
This is no different than the difference in value between a base 1st Ed and an unlimited. If unlimited, and thereās a lot of interest, theyāll print those suckers forever.
Well, my guess is that it probably is limited. Hence the big price. Otherwise youāre indeed right that itās indeed way overpriced.
I can definitely see the collection value, but 2K?.. I still donāt get why people spend 5K+ on any card, regardless if itās PokĆ©mon or Baseball. To each their own I guess.
Then again, money bills are also paper, so I guess value is all relative and what we all say/think itās worth in the end.
Greetz,
Quuador
Well, if itās limited (maybe 200 or less) then Iāll take oneā¦hint to my Jpn friends. Jst let me know.
Itās about considering rarity.
Imagine if, say, only ten of these cards were ever made. Youād be holding something that only NINE other people in the world hold. Thereās a certain kind of thrill in that that money canāt really buy, in my opinion.
Which is why people like us fork out huge sums of money for cards. 
Anyway, Iām pretty sure that this card will be very limited. That, and considering it comes in a fancy case, I doubt anyone would want to crack it open to send to PSAā¦ would they??
If there are only 10 I will buy one (if Iām quick enough), simply because it would be worth much more than 2K, and even though I wonāt ever sell it, then it would be worth it. I doubt there will only be 10 copies though.. Probably more like 250.
Greetz,
Quuador
Has there been any news about how many of these cards are produced yet? It will be released in 3 days, so Iām surprised we have so little information so farā¦ :S
Also, in the PokĆ©Gym article it states two shops, but those are both physical shops in Japan arenāt they?
Greetz,
Quuador
www.pokemon-card.com/20th/products/#pikagold
Thereās an article on the PokĆ©mon Card website about them, hereās some notes from it.
* The card is made as a collaboration with Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry, a Japanese jeweller and precious metals trader.
* It can be ordered for 20 days only. (October 19th 10:00 JST - November 7th 23:59 JST)
* Only enough cards will be produced to fulfill the orders. [Conversely, theyāre not limited by number?]
* The cards will be sent out sometime around December 21st-31st.
* They can be ordered online from 7/11 or PokĆ©mon Centre Online. PokĆ©mon Centres wonāt be accepting in-store orders. [As a note, neither chainās website ships outside Japan]
* The price is 200000 yen, but note that thereās also the 8% tax in Japan so youād have to pay 216000 yen in total. [~$2072, ~Ā£1700 as of this post]
Thanks for that information! A bit disappointing it does not have a limited release.
Well it is unlimited for a limited amount of days. So 20 days of orders, it could be 50 it could be 5,000. I would guess this would still be less than 250 or so, but that is a complete guess out of nowhere.
Question comes from that. If it is āunlimitedā for 20 days and 500 are ordered, vs a ālimitedā run of 500 copies, would the ultimate values differ? I think calling it ālimitedā to 500 would make people tend to go out and snap them up quick and create more hype around it. I also think though that calling it āunlimitedā for a 20 day period may suppress the total sales since people may think it will be over ordered. Interesting things at play here. Will be cool to see how this plays out. I am still on the fence, but totally unsure of how I would go about placing an order and how much middle man fees would be. If anyone from here is making an order, get in touch with me and let me know a final price and maybe I will go for it.
It is much better to have a quantifiable production. For the simple continuity aspect of knowing, āx amount were officially awardedā. Even knowing the intended distribution is better than this situation. This could be 50 cards, it could be 5,000. There is no way to definitively know the numbers.
I personally have mixed feelings about this card. Part of me likes this idea, part of me thinks it is contrived. It reminds me a bit of the memorabilia cards in sports. However, since this is probably a one time deal, it has its uniqueness.
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oh jeezā¦lol i (
) when i read about this Pikachu gold card
Yeah I think it makes a HUGE difference on whether they disclose total production post ordering period. I kind of was making the assumption they would do that, but I guess they never do it for their card sets, so maybe they wonāt for this either. Idk if there is any precedent set with any similar type of past collectible? It seems like value wise this could do very poorly if that were the case. If, however. they were to disclose # ordered after the period and it turned out to be sub 100 cards or something. It would be really interesting to see what any offered for sale would fetch. Probably extremely unlikely that will happen though.
Man not knowing the total amount made will be really boring if they go that route.
I would have thought that the cards would have some sort of auth number like for example the third card ordered would have 3/XXX somewhere on the case, there probably wonāt be though unfortunately.
Anyone else find it kind of funny that the only other place to order from other than the official Pokemon Center website is 7/11 of all things? I realize that its a very big and different entity in Japan, but at the same timeā¦ I didnāt expect it to be āorder your $2000 USD Gold Pokemon Card on our websiteā big.