Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M(bbc.co.uk)
42 points by HelloUsername | 39 comments
BBC News article about a retired decorator from Woking whose attic-stored sealed Pokémon card collection sold for £1.56m at Ewbank's auction house.
#trading-cards on Hacker News
4 stories tagged trading-cards, newest first.
Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town(tokyoweekender.com)
1710 points by PaulHoule | 385 comments
Tokyo Weekender article about trading cards featuring local middle-aged men that went viral in a rural Japanese town.
Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024(elitefourum.com)
561 points by grep_it | 418 comments
Elite Fourum forum thread arguing that many purported Pokemon TCG playtest cards were likely printed in 2024 rather than being vintage originals.
Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)(howtoware.co)
381 points by edye | 131 comments
A blog post by Jonah Stiennon describing how he built trading cards using e-ink displays, shown in a playing board with buttons.