Raincoat Pikachu PSA 10 Sold for $8.4 Million. Four Weeks Later, Another Brought $274,500

A PSA 10 "Raincoat Pikachu" sold for $8,400,000 on Fanatics Collect late on September 27, 2026, making it the second most expensive Pokémon card ever sold publicly. The lot page records a $7,000,000 winning bid after 64 bids, with the buyer's premium taking it to $8.4 million. As of October 27, 2026, Fanatics Collect's sold records list the sale as paid. Two weeks later, on October 11, 2026, a different PSA 10 copy brought $1,037,000 at Goldin. On October 25, a third PSA 10 sold for $274,500 at Goldin, about 3 percent of the September price.

Updated October 27, 2026 with the October 25 Goldin result and the payment status of the record sale.

What Sold at Fanatics Collect

The card is a 2015 Japanese promo, not a pack card. Here is the full identity from the slab and the lot page:

Card

• Name: Pikachu, XY-P promo
• Artwork: "Raincoat Pikachu" by Y. Fujishima, a winner of the Pokémon Art Academy illustration contest
• Language: Japanese

Slab

• Grade: PSA 10 Gem Mint
• Cert: 24753376

Sale

• Venue: Fanatics Collect Weekly Auction, after the card was flash inserted on September 16
• Winning bid: $7,000,000
• Final price with buyer's premium: $8,400,000
• Bids: 64
• Close: scheduled for 10 PM ET on September 27, the sale ran into extended bidding and closed about 11:24 PM ET

Two More PSA 10s at Goldin: $1,037,000, Then $274,500

A different PSA 10 copy of the same card closed in Goldin's TCG Weekly Auction (September 30 to October 11) late on October 11, 2026, US time.

Sale

• Venue: Goldin, 2026 TCG Weekly Auction
• Winning bid: $850,000
• Final price with Goldin's 22% buyer's premium: $1,037,000
• Bids: 64 (by coincidence, the same count as the Fanatics Collect sale)
• Cert: 24842807
• Close: about 10:30 PM ET on October 11
• Second source: SI Collectibles ranked it the top TCG sale of its week on October 19, 2026

That was still more than six times the $156,250 Heritage result from June, but about one eighth of the Fanatics Collect price two weeks earlier, for the same card in the same grade.

Two weeks after that, a third PSA 10 sold in Goldin's Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction:

Sale

• Venue: Goldin, Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction, lot 31
• Winning bid: $225,000
• Final price with Goldin's 22% buyer's premium: $274,500
• Bids: 15
• Close: about 11:50 PM ET on October 25

The highest price in that same auction went to another Art Academy card. A PSA 10 Art Academy Mudkip sold for $4,880,000 after 73 bids, as our Art Academy Mudkip report covers. Two other Art Academy designs in that sale, a Gourgeist and a Sableye, brought $976,000 each with premium, so price depends on the design and the copy, not just the program.

Why an Art Academy Card Can Outsell Almost Every Charizard

The Pokémon Company announced a Japanese illustration contest tied to the 3DS game Pokémon Art Academy on November 28, 2014, with entries open from December 13, 2014 to February 1, 2015, as Famitsu reported. One category asked for dressed-up Pikachu designs, which is where the raincoat comes from. Winning artwork was printed as real Pokémon cards. According to Kotaku, each winner privately received 100 copies of their card, and none were ever sold at retail.

That makes every Art Academy design one of the scarcest printed Pokémon cards, and the market noticed fast. Two days before the Pikachu closed, an Art Academy Mudkip by Daisuke Ochiai in PSA 10 sold for $3,720,000 in the Fanatics Collect September Premier Auction. Two Art Academy cards cleared a combined $12.12 million in one week. Our Pokémon Art Academy cards guide covers the contest and the other winning designs.

The Number That Should Make You Careful: 57 PSA 10s

Scarcity has limits here. Kotaku, citing PSA's population report via Polygon, counted 57 copies graded PSA 10 on September 30, 2026, and Fanatics Collect still listed a population of 57 on October 27. Kotaku notes that Fujishima appears to have made many of the 100 cards available. Compare that with the Pikachu Illustrator, which has a single PSA 10.

The price history of the same grade is what makes this sale so striking:

PSA 10 Raincoat Pikachu, recorded sales

• 2025: $16,100 and $26,100 (PriceCharting, via Kotaku)
• July 24, 2025: $17,400 at Fanatics Collect (sold records)
• June 2026: $156,250 at Heritage Auctions (via Kotaku)
• August 2026: $79,999.99 (via Kotaku)
• September 27, 2026: $8,400,000 at Fanatics Collect (lot page)
• October 11, 2026: $1,037,000 at Goldin (lot page)
• October 25, 2026: $274,500 at Goldin (lot page)

The Fanatics Collect price was roughly 54 times the June result, about eight times the first Goldin result and about 31 times the second. Writing on September 30, before the Goldin sale, Kotaku's John Walker said of the earlier, cheaper sales: "There's no meaningful difference between these slabs and the one sold two days ago on auction site Fanatics Collect."

What It Means if You Own One (or Want One)

One record sale is a data point, not a price guide.

Confirmed: the Fanatics Collect lot page records 64 bids and an $8,400,000 final price for cert 24753376, and, as of October 27, 2026, Fanatics Collect's sold records list it as paid. Goldin's lot pages record an $850,000 winning bid after 64 bids for another PSA 10 (cert 24842807), $1,037,000 with the 22% buyer's premium, and a $225,000 winning bid after 15 bids for a third, $274,500 with premium.

Reported: on September 30, Kotaku wrote that it had been claimed the sale was legitimate and paid, and that it asked Fanatics whether it had any concerns about it.

Not announced: the buyer, the seller, or any comment from Fanatics Collect.

What has changed since: Fanatics Collect's sold records now list the sale as paid, and two more PSA 10s sold at Goldin, for $1,037,000 on October 11 and $274,500 on October 25, 2026.

If you hold a copy, the useful comparables are completed sales in the same grade, and there are now three very different ones from the same four weeks. If you are shopping for one, check the asking price against all three. As of October 27, 2026, another PSA 10 (cert 26164617) is still listed on Fanatics Collect at $8,400,000.

Where the $8.4 million sale ranks among public Pokémon card sales as of October 27, 2026:

1. Pikachu Illustrator, PSA 10: $16,492,000 at Goldin, February 16, 2026, recorded by Guinness World Records

2. Raincoat Pikachu, PSA 10: $8,400,000 at Fanatics Collect, September 27, 2026

3. Pikachu Illustrator, PSA 9: $5,000,000 at Heritage, September 18, 2026, per Heritage's auction report

4. Art Academy Mudkip, PSA 10: $4,880,000 at Goldin, October 26, 2026

5. Art Academy Mudkip, PSA 10: $3,720,000 at Fanatics Collect, September 25, 2026, a different copy

Our most valuable Pokémon cards guide tracks the full list, and the Pikachu Illustrator PSA 9 sale explains why one grade point moved that card by millions.

Where to Go From Here

Pikachu cards rewrote the record book in September 2026, and most collectors will never touch an Art Academy slab. For real cards you can actually open, the Polkastarter marketplace gives you a free mystery pack when you sign up, and every Lootbox lists its contents, values, and chances before you open.

Details checked October 27, 2026. Prices and populations change. Nothing here is financial or investment advice. Polkastarter is not affiliated with The Pokémon Company, PSA, Fanatics Collect or the other companies named.

Sources

• Fanatics Collect: 2015 Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu PSA 10 lot, closed September 27, 2026, accessed October 27, 2026
• Goldin: 2015 Pokémon Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Y. Fujishima #XY-P Pikachu PSA 10, closed October 11, 2026, accessed October 27, 2026
• Goldin: 2015 Pokémon Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Y. Fujishima #XY-P Pikachu PSA 10 (Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction), closed October 25, 2026, accessed October 27, 2026
• Goldin: 2015 Pokémon Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Daisuke Ochiai #XY-P Mudkip PSA 10, closed October 26, 2026, accessed October 27, 2026
• SI Collectibles: Pokémon sweeps the top 5 TCG sales again, led by Pikachu, published October 19, 2026, accessed October 27, 2026
• Fanatics Collect sold records, Raincoat Pikachu PSA 10 sales and payment status, accessed October 27, 2026
• Kotaku: A Pikachu Pokémon Card Just Sold For An Inexplicable $8.4 Million, published September 30, 2026, accessed October 12, 2026
• Fanatics Collect: 2015 Japanese XY Promo Art Academy Ochiai Mudkip PSA 10 lot, closed September 25, 2026, accessed October 12, 2026
• Famitsu: Pokémon Art Academy x Pokémon Card Game illustration contest, published November 28, 2014, accessed October 12, 2026
• Heritage Auctions: PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator achieves record $5 million, published September 2026, accessed October 12, 2026