The largest trading card week on record: a PSA 9 Illustrator at $5 million, a CGC 9 at $2.8 million a day later, an Alpha Black Lotus at $2.2 million, a sealed First Edition Base Set box at $750,000 and a Legendary Collection reverse Charizard at $575,000.
Read itFive days in, 30th Celebration's pull rates look like the friendliest of the modern era and announced chase cards have already settled; the three RGB Mews are ¥500,000 to ¥1,000,000 in Japan; a sealed First Edition Base Set box made $750,000; PSA reports Tuesday.
Read itA PSA 9 Illustrator at $5 million on Thursday and a CGC 9 at $2.8 million on Friday. Same card, same number on the label, 78 percent apart. The label premium is real, it grows with the price, and it is mostly about who is bidding.
Read itVintage and modern both read 0.0% with 105 of 116 vintage cards and 93 of 112 modern cards unchanged, the fewest re-marks in any reading. The engine saw few new comps over the 30th Celebration weekend; last week's $11 million of sales have not fed through yet.
Read itSix Illustrator sales in 2026, and the 9 rung just moved from $2.7 million to $5 million in eighteen days. The ladder is now steeper in the middle than at the top, and the gap between PSA and CGC at the same grade is 78 percent.
Read itTwo Pikachu Illustrators sell for $7.8 million in 24 hours, a sealed First Edition Base Set box makes $750,000 and a Legendary Collection reverse Charizard $575,000, all in the biggest TCG week ever recorded: $11.3 million.
Read itA First Edition shadowless Charizard PSA 10 sold for $1,000,953 on eBay on September 9, which corrects Monday's issue; a 1999 Masaki promo Gengar made $207,000; PSA's backlog update is Tuesday; Pocket's next set is scheduled for September 30.
Read itThis issue's quiz card, the Evolving Skies Sylveon VMAX alternate art in PSA 10, has a Gem Mint population near 14,000 and a mark of $699. On modern chase cards, demand sets the price and population only tells you how liquid it is.
Read itVintage reads 0.0% after ten straight positive weeks, with Expedition, Holon Phantoms and Unseen Forces still rising and Team Rocket Returns flat after Monday's jump; modern flat with Ascended Heroes -2.7% and the two Celebrations sets lower. Full tables.
Read itThe vintage basket read 0.0% this week after ten straight positive readings and a record +0.9% on Monday. Fifty cards were still up and only twenty down; the median just stopped moving. What a pause looks like, and what would make it a top.
Read itPokemon TCG: 30th Celebration launched worldwide on September 16. UK retailers sold out within minutes, most pre-orders had not arrived, and a Blue RGB Mew ex, one of three unrevealed chase variants, sold on eBay for $20,000 on launch day.
Read it30th Celebration sold out in minutes in the UK on Wednesday while a secret RGB Mew ex that The Pokemon Company never announced sold for $20,000 on eBay, and a First Edition Charizard cleared $1 million on eBay the week before.
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