Charmeleon

What moves the price of this card

The Charmeleon on this page is the 1st Edition printing from Base Set (Shadowless), and it trades at $132.54£100.21€119.92 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 1 $70£52.92€63.34, PSA 3 $26.48£20.02€23.96, PSA 4 $41.50£31.38€37.55, PSA 5 $26£19.66€23.53, PSA 6 $67.32£50.90€60.91, PSA 7 $178.40£134.88€161.42, PSA 8 $242.50£183.34€219.42, PSA 9 $410.38£310.27€371.32, CGC/BGS 9.5 $421.77£318.88€381.62, PSA 10 $3,008£2,274€2,722. PSA has graded 8,600 copies of it. 3,333 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Charmeleon worth?

A PSA 10 Charmeleon from Base Set (Shadowless) sells for $3,008. 11.1% 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 Charmeleon from Base Set (Shadowless) worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $573.33 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $101.98 for a raw copy plus $369 to send it through PSA Super Express, so it clears $102.35.

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 $3,008£2,274€2,722. 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.