Butterfree
- Set
- Base Set 2
- Number
- 034/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Artist
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Released
- Feb 24, 2000
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $2.59£1.95€2.28
- Today
- $1.98£1.49€1.74
- Change
- -$0.61-£0.46-€0.54 (-23.6%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | 75 | $1.99£1.50€1.75 | $1.98£1.49€1.74 | |
| PSA 4 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 5 | 2 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 6 | 3 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 7 | – | – | $8£6.02€7.05 | |
| PSA 8 | 24 | – | – | $9.87£7.43€8.69 | |
| PSA 9 | 76 | 1 | – | $10.50£7.90€9.25 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $12£9.03€10.57 | |
| PSA 10 | 49 | 2 | – | $113.48£85.41€99.94 | |
About these prices
30.2% 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 329 completed sales, updated Sep 30, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
329 completed listings on eBay, Fanatics CollectShow 288 more, the newest 300 of 329
15 Base Set 2 Pokemon Cards! Butterfree, Victreebell, Venomoth+Other Grass Cards$6.49£4.88€5.72Butterfree 34/130 Uncommon Base Set 2 Pokemon Moderately Played 34/130$2.49£1.87€2.19Butterfree 34/130 Uncommon Base Set 2 Pokemon 2000 Lightly Played 34/130$2.49£1.87€2.198POKEMON CARD BUTTERFREE 34 BASE SET 2 #34 VINTAGE GRADED PSA 8 WIZARDS WOTC #34$15£11.29€13.21
8.5Cert 91933888Auction$7.99£6.01€7.0482000 Pokémon Base Set 2 #34 - Butterfree - PSA 8.5 NM-MT+ #34$7.99£6.01€7.049Cert 92383035Auction$12.99£9.78€11.449POKEMON BASE SET 2 #34 BUTTERFREE PSA 9$12.99£9.78€11.449Pokémon Base Set 2 Butterfree 34/130 Uncommon PSA 9 MINT 34/130$25£18.82€22.02More from Base Set 2
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Charizard
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AlakazamGrading odds
CGC has graded 182 copies. Where they landed:
These are CGC grades. The prices above are for PSA slabs, and a CGC 10 is not the same grade as a PSA 10, so read the two as separate markets rather than one.
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 29.9% 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 $40.88£30.77€36 on average against $101.97£76.75€89.80 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $61.09£45.98€53.80, so a copy is worth more raw.
1 of the 5 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
- 034/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Set released
- Feb 24, 2000
- PSA population, all printings
- 167
- Printings priced
- 1
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The same card in other sets
Legendary Collection021/110$228.41£171.91€201.15
Expedition005/165$180£135.48€158.52
Southern Islands09/18$49.04£36.91€43.19
EX FireRed & LeafGreen2/112$42.71£32.15€37.61
Expedition038/165$31.21£23.49€27.49
Neo Discovery19/75$30.65£23.07€26.99
HeartGold SoulSilver16/123$22.76£17.13€20.04
Great Encounters14/106$14.07£10.59€12.39What moves the price of this card
The Butterfree on this page is the Normal printing from Base Set 2, and it trades at $1.40£1.05€1.23 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 7 $8£6.02€7.05, PSA 8 $9.87£7.43€8.69, PSA 9 $10.50£7.90€9.25, CGC/BGS 9.5 $12£9.03€10.57, PSA 10 $113.48£85.41€99.94. PSA has graded 167 copies of it. 329 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Butterfree worth?
A PSA 10 Butterfree from Base Set 2 sells for $113.48. 30.2% 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 Butterfree from Base Set 2 worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $41.13 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $1.98 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $60.84.
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 $113.48£85.41€99.94. 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.
What Butterfree does
Stage2, evolves from Metapod · 70 HP
Whirlwind20If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
Mega Drain40Remove a number of damage counters from Butterfree equal to half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10).
Weak to Fire ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.