Professional Sports Authenticator — the world's leading certifier of trading cards — says 43% of the cards it graded in 2023 wereEach card costs a minimum of $15 to grade, rising to as much as $8,000 for cards worth more than $250,000.The Pokémon boom stems from a new generation of collectors — people who were kids when the cards debuted in the late 1990s and thereafter — becoming serious about the hobby, PSA President Ryan Hoge tells Axios.
"That was their childhood," Hoge says. "They're in their early 30s now, they have some disposable income, and they're going back and wanting to reconnect with that and find their favorite characters — the same way somebody might have gone back and collected Michael Jordan rookie cards.
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