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YouTuber Logan Paul’s rare Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card sold for $16.5 million, setting a new record for the auction price of a trading card.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Norway will hold a bond auction Wednesday and Sweden will auction inflation-linked bonds on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
As the world’s major auction houses prepare for next month’s spring sales in New York, clues are starting to trickle out about the masterpieces they’ve wrangled to resell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
A coin considered the "most beautiful" ever minted in Britain has sold at auction for £110,000.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
A witness claimed they saw Great-Grampy JonJon leaving the room where the auction items were being held while no one else was in there.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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