Bursting Balloon
- Number
- 124/171
- Rarity
- None
- Released
- Apr 21, 2017
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $4.62£3.46€4.03
- Today
- $10.12£7.58€8.83
- Change
- +$5.50+£4.12+€4.80 (+119%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $10.12£7.58€8.83 | |
| PSA 9 | 9 | 2 | – | $13.54£10.15€11.82 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $15£11.24€13.09 | |
| PSA 10 | 16 | – | – | $51.25£38.41€44.72 |
About these prices
64.0% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. Sold and median are 90 days of PSA sales. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 15 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
15 completed listings on eBay92017 POKEMON JAPANESE THE BEST OF XY #124 BURSTING BALLOON-REVERSE FOIL PSA 9 #124$13.58£10.18€11.8592017 POKEMON JAPANESE THE BEST OF XY #124 BURSTING BALLOON-REVERSE FOIL PSA 9 #124$13.50£10.12€11.78Bursting Balloon 124/171 Reverse Holo The Best of XY Pokemon Japanese Near Mint Japanese 124/171$18.99£14.23€16.5710PSA 10 Bursting Balloon 124/171 Best of XY Japanese Reverse Foil Pokemon Card Japanese 124/171$93.99£70.44€82.022017 Pokemon Japanese The Best of XY #124/171 Bursting Balloon Rev Foil I630 97/122$1.25£0.94€1.09Pokemon Bursting Balloon 124/171 Holo Starfoil Best of XY LP Pokemon Card Japanese$9.99£7.49€8.7210Pokemon PSA 10 Japanese 2017 Best Of XY Bursting Balloon Holo #124 #124$8.50£6.37€7.42Show 3 more
10PSA 10 Bursting Balloon Reverse Holo Japanese The Best of XY 124/171 Pokemon 124/171$21£15.74€18.3210Cert 28141981Auction$5.50£4.12€4.80More from Japanese The Best of XY
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Hex Maniac (Mirror Holofoil)Grading odds
PSA has graded 25 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 64.0% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $37.67£28.23€32.87 on average against $110.11£82.52€96.08 for the card plus $79.99£59.94€69.80 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $72.44£54.28€63.21, so a copy is worth more raw.
1 of the 3 grades priced above had no sales at that grade, so the figure is modelled from the grades that did rather than observed.
Card facts
- Card number
- 124/171
- Rarity
- None
- Set released
- Apr 21, 2017
- PSA population, all printings
- 25
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- $947£710€827
- 7 day move
- +6.6%
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What moves the price of this card
The Bursting Balloon on this page is the only printing from Japanese The Best of XY, and it trades at no recorded price in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.
Graded, it runs PSA 9 $13.54£10.15€11.82, CGC/BGS 9.5 $15£11.24€13.09, PSA 10 $51.25£38.41€44.72. PSA has graded 25 copies of it. 15 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Bursting Balloon worth?
A PSA 10 Bursting Balloon from Japanese The Best of XY sells for $51.25. 64.0% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.
Is Bursting Balloon from Japanese The Best of XY worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $37.67 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $10.12 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $72.44.
Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $51.25£38.41€44.72. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.