RarePOP Series 516/172007Illustrated by Masakazu Fukuda
Espeon ☆ “Gold Star Espeon” 16/17 · POP Series 5 price & value
Raw · near mint
$10,038
Updated
GradedFull ladder ↓
- Sales recorded
- 67
- every grade, since 2024
- Last 90 days
- 12 raw · 35 all
- 13 in the last 30, every grade
- Confidence
- High
- 12 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
- Latest sale
- 8d ago
- raw · any grade 5d ago
Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 17 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →
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What's your copy worth?
The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →
NMheadline
Near Mint
$10,038
basis
LP
Lightly Played
$7,609
−24%
MP
Moderately Played
$5,310
−47%
HP
Heavily Played
$4,015
−60%
DM
Damaged
$3,112
−69%
And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.
Raw · latest
$10,038▲ 446%over 6 years
2021-01-01 → 2026-09-20
Copies for sale right now
Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-19T08:26:43.231Z.
Cheapest raw copy $11,975 — 19% above our near-mint estimate of $10,038
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What the sales actually show
The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.
Range
$3,900 – $10,000
Raw — lowest to highest sale
Sales rate
8.2/mo
every grade, whole record
Where it sells
100% eBay
Raw — last 90 days
Demand
81/100
Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz
What each grade sold for
- Raw$5,50017 sales · 12 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 10$18,0009 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 9$15,3517 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$15,1006 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 6$12,0005 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 3$6,8134 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 4$8,7513 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 1$5,6403 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.
Every sale we can show you
Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 67 sales for this card going back to 2024; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.
1–8 of 109 sales · 61 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
Every grade, priced
Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.
- PSA 10pop 58reviewed$127,50013× raw
- PSA 9pop 156modelled$15,3511.5× raw
- PSA 8pop 108$15,1001.5× raw
- Ungraded$10,038
- BGS 91 sold$9,300
- CGC 9pop 3modelled$9,000
- BGS 8.52 sold$7,750
- CGC 8pop 152 sold$7,750
- PSA 7pop 112✓ 9 cert-verified$7,100
- BGS 8modelled$5,296
- CGC 7pop 10modelled$5,201
- BGS 5.5modelled$4,355
- CGC 5.5pop 9modelled$2,552
- CGC 4.5pop 5modelled$2,000
- BGS 2modelled$1,320
- PSA 5pop 963 sold$65
A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.
How many exist, and at what grade
PSA's cumulative census for this card — the same population behind the ladder above and the grading verdict below.
PSA 10 · gem mint
7%
58 of 831
PSA 9
18.8%
156 of 831
Total PSA graded
831
every grade, all time
- PSA 831 graded
- CGC 90 graded
The census is cumulative and counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the gem rate a first submission should expect. Treat it as the ceiling.
The odds of pulling one
Espeon ☆ is a Rare in POP Series 5— the pack’s hit slot lands on rare 100% of the time, split across 6 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 6 packs.
Is Espeon ☆ worth grading?
Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.
Verdict
Worth it
every grade weighted by its census share
Expected net
$6,972
after fees, all grades
Best case
$111,168
PSA 10 only
Grading cost
$1,156
tier fee + shipping
Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
Trader
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
- Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
- Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
- Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
- Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
- Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.
Built on 50 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-09-19.
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Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
More Espeon ☆ and more from POP Series 5
Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.
Umbreon ☆POP Series 5 · #17 · 2007$7,438PSA 10 $106,514
Mew δPOP Series 5 · #3 · 2007$585PSA 10 $26,000
PikachuPOP Series 5 · #12 · 2007$340PSA 10 $2,000
LugiaPOP Series 5 · #2 · 2007$118
Charmeleon δPOP Series 5 · #5 · 2007$67.16
Pikachu δPOP Series 5 · #13 · 2007$62.88PSA 10 $5,160
Double Rainbow EnergyPOP Series 5 · #4 · 2007$44.99
Ho-OhPOP Series 5 · #1 · 2007$31.96
Charmander δPOP Series 5 · #10 · 2007$31.03PSA 10 $3,720
Rare CandyPOP Series 5 · #7 · 2007$25.66PSA 10 $235
Meowth δPOP Series 5 · #11 · 2007$23.86PSA 10 $187
Bill's MaintenancePOP Series 5 · #6 · 2007$15.33PSA 10 $600
δ Rainbow EnergyPOP Series 5 · #9 · 2007$14.38
Pelipper δPOP Series 5 · #14 · 2007$7.46
Boost EnergyPOP Series 5 · #8 · 2007$6.96PSA 10 $127
Zangoose δPOP Series 5 · #15 · 2007$4.49
Market data
Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.
What the series says
Volatility
volatile
90-day band
$924 – $10,262
Today’s price sits 98% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.
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About Espeon ☆
Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.
Espeon ☆ (“Gold Star Espeon”) is a Rare Pokémon card from POP Series 5 (#16, released 2007), illustrated by Masakazu Fukuda. It’s a Basic Star Psychic-type Pokémon with 70 HP, weak to Psychic ×2. It’s listed among our Gold Star cards, from the EX (2004–2007) era.
Card text
Once during your turn, when you put Espeon Star from your hand onto your Bench, you may use this power. Each Active Pokémon (both yours and your opponent's) is now Confused.
Psychic · Psychic · Colorless
Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
You can't have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.
The Pokémon
Its fur is so sensitive, it can sense minute shifts in the air and predict the weather.
Card details
- Set
- POP Series 5
- Number
- #16
- Rarity
- Rare
- Released
- 2007
- Pokémon
- All Espeon cards
- Generation
- Gen II · Johto
- Artist
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Supertype
- Pokémon
- Subtypes
- Basic, Star
- Type
- Psychic
- HP
- 70
- National Pokédex
- #196
- Card ID
- pop5-16
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Espeon ☆ (POP Series 5 #16) worth?
As of 20 September 2026, Espeon ☆ from POP Series 5 is worth approximately $10,038 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $127,500 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Espeon ☆?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Espeon ☆ from POP Series 5 is worth around $127,500 — roughly 13× the raw ungraded value of $10,038.
Should I grade my Espeon ☆?
Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card actually earns it, the expected value after the $1,156 grading fee is about $6,972 — and a PSA 10 would net roughly $111,168. That assumes a copy clean enough to have a real shot at a high grade.
How often does Espeon ☆ sell?
CardTrack recorded 35 completed sales of Espeon ☆ (POP Series 5 #16) across every grade in the last 90 days, 12 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-16. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.
Is Espeon ☆ rare?
Espeon ☆ is a Rare card from POP Series 5 (card #16), released in 2007.