30th Celebration releases worldwide Wednesday with TCG Live's biggest update the day before, two 2015 Double Crisis EX cards cleared $348,000 and $181,314 on Alt, a Snorlax LV.X made $253,680, and a First Edition Base Set Chansey sold for $238,597.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is a First Edition Team Rocket Dark Dragonite in PSA 6, our mark $417. On a vintage holo a 6 is a specific thing: a card that was played, not damaged. And when a set re-prices, the 6s and 7s are the lanes that move last.
Read itVintage posts its tenth positive reading and its largest, +0.9%, with Team Rocket Returns +6.7%, Holon Phantoms +4.7% and Unseen Forces +3.6%; modern flat with 47 of 112 cards lower two days before 30th Celebration. Full tables.
Read itThree English-language record sales in 2026: a First Edition Charizard at $954,800 in February, a Rayquaza Gold Star at $1.02 million on August 30, and a Torchic Gold Star at $2.7 million on September 10. What the shape of the ladder says about where the next one comes from.
Read itThe PSA 10 Torchic Gold Star closed at $2.7 million on Alt on September 10, the PSA 9 at $156,336, and five more lots cleared six figures. Eleven days after the $1.02 million Rayquaza, the English record is 2.6 times higher.
Read itA PSA 10 Torchic Gold Star closes at $2.7 million on Alt to more than double the English record set eleven days earlier, the PSA 9 goes for $156,336, and 30th Celebration releases worldwide on Wednesday.
Read itAlt's auction with the $1.97 million-bid Torchic Gold Star closes tonight, Goldin's pop culture sale also moved a $88,450 Mew promo and a $74,420 Worlds trainer, 30th Celebration releases Wednesday, and a 2016 set finally moved in our Index.
Read itThis issue's quiz card is a 2003 Skyridge Nidoran reverse holo in PSA 10, our mark $1,066. The card is a common. The grade is the whole price, and the reason is the e-Reader era's reverse holo printing and a population you can count on your fingers.
Read itVintage +0.6% with EX Unseen Forces +2.8%, EX Deoxys +2.2%, Skyridge +2.0% and Expedition +1.8%; modern flat as a basket but Fates Collide +6.3% and Classic Collection +1.8%. Full tables.
Read itTwo shiny legendaries from the same 2011 set, the same grade, five weeks apart. Lugia closed at Goldin this morning at $367,220 after 49 bids; the Rayquaza that led the first week of August at $180,200 sold for $97,600 in the same auction.
Read itPSA cleared another million cards in two weeks: 9.9 million on September 8, down 2.5 million from the July peak. For the first time it said a suspended tier could be evaluated for reopening this month. The Value threshold is still 5 million.
Read itPSA's backlog falls below ten million and the company says a closed tier could reopen this month, a Call of Legends Lugia closes at $367,220 at Goldin this morning, and Alt's Torchic Gold Star auction ends tonight.
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