Charmander — Burning Shadows #18a, PSA 10

CommonBurning Shadows18a/1472017PSA 10

Charmander 18a/147 · Burning Shadows PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$2,640

Fair buy $2,376 · sell $2,640 (±10%)207× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$13
PSA 9$1007.8×
PSA 10this page$2,640207×

PSA 10 sales: 1; 5 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 0; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 105d ago; one every ~162d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 of this exact card · stock as of 4 days ago. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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Why $2,640? Cert-verified PSA 10 sales

Each sale is tied by PSA to a specific graded slab — click the cert to check the exact card, grade and serial on psacard.com. Outliers against the grade’s own median are dropped; qualified slabs are listed separately beneath.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-02-23	eBay · auction	listing #56144653 sold before	$990
2025-10-27	eBay · bestoffer	listing #43159250	$500
2025-05-18	eBay · bestoffer	listing #61610981	$260
2025-04-16	eBay · bestoffer	listing #61610981	$250
2024-06-29	eBay · auction	listing #92260804	$306

2 of 5 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 162 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 7 sales across 7 months, May 2024 to Jun 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$2,640▲ 17×over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 17×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. The recorded PSA 10 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above. The line is the running level, so a single unusually cheap or dear sale does not spike it. Hover any day for its price on the line.

Latest $2,640 (Jun 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 1163% since May 2024

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 5 distinct slabs behind 7 cert-linked sales at this grade — 20%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#56144653	May 2024 $209→Feb 2026 $990	Over a year	+373.1%

A cert reappearing shows the same physical slab sold again — it identifies no buyer or seller. Gross change is price to price; fees, shipping and the grading cost are not in it.

Every PSA 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 1 PSA 10 sales with a median of $2,640; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 10 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 5

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Yellow A Alt Art Holo Charmander #18a PS	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-06-22	—	$2,640
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Charmander 18a/147 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-02-23	56144653	$990
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Charmander 18a/147 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-10-27	43159250	$500
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Charmander 18a/147 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-05-18	61610981	$260
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Charmander 18a/147 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-04-16	61610981	$250
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Charmander 18a/147 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2024-06-29	92260804	$306

1–6 of 6 sales · 5 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

How many PSA 10 copies exist

PSA’s cumulative census for this card. It counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the rate a fresh submission should expect.

PSA 10 population

5.1% of 353 graded

Share of every submission

5.1%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

353

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 8 of 264. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Charmander worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$41

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

320%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$2,232

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$91

tier fee + shipping

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.

Trader plan and above →

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 6 graded sales and a population of 4,409,781 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

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Charmander (Burning Shadows #18a) — PSA 10 market value USD $2,640, from 5 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/burning-shadows/charmander-18a/psa-10

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Charmander (Burning Shadows #18a) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Charmander from Burning Shadows is worth approximately $2,640, with a fair range of $2,376 to $2,640 — about 207× the $13 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 5 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 2 at auction, 3 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 162 days.

How many PSA 10 Charmander exist?

PSA has graded 18 copies of Charmander (Burning Shadows #18a) a 10, out of 353 submitted — 5.1% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Charmander hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $91 grading fee is about $41; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 320% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Charmander a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Charmander has 1 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.