Pokemon Card Price Charts — PSA History, Plotted Against Bitcoin, Gold and Stocks

What this does that a price guide does not

PriceCharting, PSA's own auction prices, and every "card value" site answer one question: what did this card sell for? That is a useful question and they answer it well. It is also the only question they answer.

The question a collector actually argues about at 1am is a different one. Would I have been better off holding Bitcoin? Did my Base Set box beat the S&P? Are PSA 9s catching up to PSA 10s, or falling further behind? None of those can be answered by a single price line. They are all ratios, and a ratio needs both series on the same chart, in the same unit.

That unit is market capitalization. A card price on its own is not comparable to Bitcoin's price — one is a single object, the other is a unit of a divisible asset. Multiply the card's price by the number of copies that exist at that grade and you get something that is comparable: the total value of every PSA 10 Base Set Charizard in the world, next to the total value of all Bitcoin.

Once both sides are a market cap, the ratio between them means something. That is the whole tool.

The cards you can chart, and exactly which card each one is

There are at least twenty distinct series with "Charizard" in the name, and they are worth wildly different amounts. A 1st Edition Base Set Charizard and an Unlimited Base Set Charizard are different cards; a Japanese 1996 Charizard is a third. "A PSA 10 Charizard" identifies none of them.

So every series below is listed with its set, year, language and grade. If we cannot state all four, the series is not on this page.

Six cards you can open now

No account needed. Each one opens the card's own price line for the last 12 months, built from recorded sales. You can look, zoom, and switch between price and market cap.

• Umbreon VMAX (Alt Art) — Evolving Skies, 2021, English · PSA 10
• Charizard ex (Special Illustration Rare) — Obsidian Flames, 2023, English · PSA 10
• Charizard — Promo Card Pack 25th Anniversary Edition, 2021, Japanese · PSA 10
• Charizard — CD Promo, 1998, Japanese · PSA 10
• Pikachu — Munch: A Retrospective, 2018, Japanese · PSA 10
• Mew ex (Hyper Rare) — Scarlet & Violet: 151, 2023, English · PSA 10

Every other card in the table below opens with a paid plan. Both plans start with a free trial.

39 distinct cards, spanning 1996 to 2023, in English and Japanese, tracked at PSA 10, PSA 9 and PSA 8 where the sales data supports it. Click any card to open it in the charting app.

Grade spreads: PSA 10 against PSA 9 of the same card

The most useful ratio in graded collecting is not card-against-crypto. It is a card against itself at a different grade.

The PSA 10 / PSA 9 ratio of a single card tells you whether the market is paying for condition or for the card. When it widens, gem-mint scarcity is being bid up and submitting is worth it. When it compresses, the premium for perfection is deflating and a PSA 9 is the better carry. That spread moves for reasons that have nothing to do with the card's headline price — and on a price chart it is invisible, because both series go up and you cannot see which went up more.

On OmniaChart you plot charizard_1st_psa10 / charizard_1st_psa9 and read the spread directly.

How a card's market cap is computed — and where it is an estimate

Price is observed. Population is observed, from PSA's published census, with dated snapshots so the number that applied in 2019 is the one used for 2019. Market cap is the two multiplied.

Two honesty notes, because a number you cannot audit is worth less than one you can:

• Some series are baskets, not cards. Where a chart aggregates several tracked printings and scales them to approximate a wider market, it is labelled an estimate, not a price. A basket is never presented as the value of one object.
• Graded collectibles trade thinly. A card may have no sale for weeks. Ratios here are built from days when both sides actually traded, never by carrying a stale card price forward against a crypto price that moved — that method manufactures "all-time lows" that never happened.

Comparing against anything else on the platform

The collectibles section is one of six. The same ratio machinery works across them, which is the point of putting them in one place:

• Crypto — Bitcoin, Ethereum and 1,000+ assets, by price, market cap, circulating or fully diluted supply
• Stocks and ETFs — including single-stock and leveraged products
• Commodities — 36 of them, gold and silver included (see the commodity charts)
• NFTs — floor prices and collection market caps
• Bonds and rates
• Collectibles — this page

Any asset on one side, any asset on the other, and you can build a formula with more than two: a basket of graded cards divided by a basket of altcoins, if that is the question you have.

Frequently asked questions

Is it free?

Six cards are free to view without an account — the last 12 months of each, listed above. Every other card, the full price history, ratios you build yourself, saved layouts, drawings and alerts are on the paid plans, which start with a free trial.

Where do the prices come from?

Recorded sales — auction results and completed marketplace sales, each shown on the chart as a dot that opens the sale — plus a price feed and PSA's published population census. On days without a sale the line is an estimate, drawn dashed. Historical data is never rewritten — a correction goes forward, so a chart you looked at last month still says what it said.

Which grades are covered?

PSA 10, PSA 9 and PSA 8, plus raw and all-grades series where sales support them. BGS is not covered yet.

Can I chart a card that is not listed?

Only cards we can identify unambiguously — set, year, edition and language — are published. If a card you follow is missing, that is usually why.

How is this different from PriceCharting or PSA's auction prices?

They tell you what a card sold for. This tells you how it performed against something else. Different question, and it needs both series on one chart.