
Swellow

- Set
- EX Emerald
- Number
- 41/106
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Artist
- Naoyo Kimura
- Released
- May 9, 2005
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $12.99£9.82€11.75
- Today
- $21.75£16.44€19.68
- Change
- +$8.76+£6.62+€7.93 (+67.4%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $21.75£16.44€19.68 | |
| PSA 4 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 5 | 2 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 6 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 5 | – | – | $32.29£24.41€29.22 | |
| PSA 8 | 12 | – | – | $42.69£32.28€38.63 | |
| PSA 9 | 19 | – | – | $48.31£36.52€43.71 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5modelled | – | – | – | $53£40.07€47.96 | |
| PSA 10modelled | – | – | – | $819.03£619.23€741.07 | |
About these prices
0.0% 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 118 completed sales, updated Nov 10, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
118 completed listings on eBayShow 106 more
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9Grading odds
CGC has graded 104 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 8.5% 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 $108.04£81.69€97.76 on average against $121.74£92.04€110.15 for the card plus $79.99£60.48€72.38 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $13.70£10.36€12.39, so a copy is worth more raw.
2 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
- 41/106
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Naoyo Kimura
- Set released
- May 9, 2005
- PSA population, all printings
- 47
- Printings priced
- 2
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Swellow on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from EX Emerald, and it trades at $30£22.68€27.14 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 7 $32.29£24.41€29.22, PSA 8 $42.69£32.28€38.63, PSA 9 $48.31£36.52€43.71, CGC/BGS 9.5 $53£40.07€47.96, PSA 10 $819.03£619.23€741.07. PSA has graded 47 copies of it. 118 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Swellow worth?
A PSA 10 Swellow from EX Emerald sells for $819.03. 0.0% 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 Swellow from EX Emerald worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $41.97 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $21.75 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $79.77.
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 $819.03£619.23€741.07. 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 Swellow does
Stage1, evolves from Taillow · 70 HP · retreat 0
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 40 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
Weak to Lightning ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
Rayquaza
Milotic ex
Pikachu
Regice ex
Deoxys ex (Speed Forme)
Groudon