Butterfree

Butterfree  from Japanese Southern Island
Sold prices oneBay
Rarity
Common
Released
Jul 30, 1999
Sold price movement
Where the price has been
12 months ago
$7.17£5.37€6.26
Today
$25.13£18.83€21.93
Change
+$17.96+£13.46+€15.67 (+251%)
Ungraded sold price, the raw line on the chart below · 78 sales in the last year
PSA gradedCGC and BGS graded
Raw market value
$22.15.
NM raw · TCGplayer market
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Butterfree from Japanese Southern Island: price by grade, PSA population and sales in the last 90 days
Price typePop sharePopulationPopSold 90dMedianPrice
Raw$25.13£18.83€21.93
PSA 38
PSA 45
PSA 534
PSA 648
PSA 730$20£14.99€17.45
PSA 865$56£41.97€48.87
PSA 9369$68.76£51.53€60
CGC/BGS 9.5$76£56.95€66.32
PSA 10316$285£213.58€248.69
About these prices

36.1% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.

Priced from 103 completed sales, updated Sep 18, 2026.

Price history

$25.13Raw · monthly median sold price
$5.6$10$18MAY '22OCT '23APR '25SEP '26
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Recent sales

103 completed listings
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Apr 28, 2024PSA9eBayButterfree Rainbow - 1999 Pokemon Japanese SOUTHERN ISLANDS #012 - BGS 9 - Pop 4 #012$50£37.47€43.63
Feb 22, 2024PSA7eBayPokemon Butterfree PSA 7 Japanese Southern Island #12 1999 #12$15.99£11.98€13.95
Dec 17, 2023PSA10eBay1999 Pokemon Japanese Promo Southern Islands 12 Butterfree SouthernIsland PSA 10 #12$32£23.98€27.92
Dec 11, 2023PSA10eBayPokemon Butterfree Southern Islands Japanese Promo #012 PSA 10 Gem Mint$31£23.23€27.05
Sep 19, 2023PSA10eBayPokemon Japanese Butterfree #12 Southern Island Promo PSA 10 #12$64.99£48.70€56.71
Sep 17, 2023PSA7eBay1999 Pokemon Butterfree #12 - Southern Island Promo Japanese - PSA 7$27.11£20.32€23.66
Jul 4, 2023PSA10eBay1999 Japanese Pokemon Southern Islands Butterfree #12 PSA 10$80£59.95€69.81
Jun 26, 2023CGC9.5eBayBGS 9.5 GEM MINT Butterfree 012 Southern Islands Japanese Pokemon Card$25£18.73€21.82
May 29, 2023PSA8eBayPokemon Card Butterfree No. 012 Southern Islands Promo Japanese PSA 8 NM-MT$8.58£6.43€7.49
May 8, 2023PSA8eBay1999 Pokemon Japanese Promo Southern Islands 12 Butterfree PSA 8 Near MINT$24.99£18.73€21.81
Mar 26, 2023PSA10eBay1999 Pokemon Japanese Promo Southern Islands 12 Butterfree SouthernIsland PSA 10 #12$52£38.97€45.38
Mar 19, 2023PSA10eBay1999 Pokemon Japanese Promo Southern Islands 12 Butterfree SouthernIsland PSA 10 #12$46£34.47€40.14
Sep 19, 2022CGC9.5eBayBGS 9.5 GEM MINT Butterfree 012 Southern Islands Japanese Pokemon Card CS6-388$21.50£16.11€18.76
Jun 9, 2022CGC9.5eBayPSA 9.5 Butterfree #012 Japanese Promo Southern Island 1999 Pokemon TCG Nintendo$13.14£9.85€11.47

Grading odds

PSA has graded 875 copies. Where they landed:

PSA 1031636.1%
PSA 936942.2%
PSA 8657.4%
PSA 7303.4%
PSA 6485.5%
Lower475.4%

Why the verdict weights the odds

Only 36.1% 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 $139.50£104.54€121.73 on average against $125.12£93.76€109.18 for the card plus $79.99£59.94€69.80 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That clears $14.38£10.77€12.55, so grading a clean copy is worth the wait.

What CGC copies sold for

Sold prices from listings that named the grader and the grade, not asking prices, and not a PSA figure converted across. A CGC 9 runs about 0.44x the PSA 9 on the cards where we hold both, but the spread is wide enough that it is only worth quoting where copies actually traded, which is what these are. The count beside each price is how many.

CGC 9 and 9.5 are one row on purpose. A CGC 9.5 sells for 3% more than a 9 across the corpus and is the cheaper of the two on nearly half of cards, so the market is not pricing them apart and splitting them here would invent a distinction. BGS is left split because there the same test says a 9.5 really is worth about 30% more.

Butterfree: sold prices by grader and grade, with the number of sales behind each median
GradeMedian soldSales
CGC 9 or 9.5$24.99£18.73€21.816

Card facts

Card number
Rarity
Common
Set released
Jul 30, 1999
PSA population, all printings
875
Printings priced
1
From the same setSouthern Island18 cards
Complete set value
$721£540€629
7 day move
+2.3%
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What moves the price of this card

The Butterfree on this page is the Normal printing from Japanese Southern Island, and it trades at $22.15£16.60€19.33 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 $20£14.99€17.45, PSA 8 $56£41.97€48.87, PSA 9 $68.76£51.53€60, CGC/BGS 9.5 $76£56.95€66.32, PSA 10 $285£213.58€248.69. PSA has graded 875 copies of it. 103 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Butterfree worth?

A PSA 10 Butterfree from Japanese Southern Island sells for $285. 36.1% 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 Japanese Southern Island worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $139.50 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $25.13 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $14.38.

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 $285£213.58€248.69. 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.