Butterfree VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #190, PSA 10

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Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · Darkness Ablaze PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$72

Fair buy $72 · sell $1013.8× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$19
PSA 9$301.6×
PSA 10this page$723.8×

PSA 10 sales: 29; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 20; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 20 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 13d ago; one every ~1d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

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

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Why $72? 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
2026-09-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #60289044	$71
2026-09-22	eBay · auction	listing #84860458 sold before	$76
2026-09-21	eBay · bestoffer	listing #59513697 sold before	$55
2026-09-09	eBay · fixedprice	listing #54670448	$84
2026-09-09	eBay · bestoffer	listing #56148926	$72
2026-09-06	eBay · bestoffer	listing #70776800	$80

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 368 sales across 25 quarters, Q3 2020 to Q3 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$72▲ 42%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

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 $75 (Q3 2026, 31 sales) · ▼ 25% since Q3 2020

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

22 slabs have sold more than once, across 22 resales — typically 422 days apart, with a median gross price change of +25.0%. That is 22 of the 335 distinct slabs behind 369 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.6%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#84860458	Feb 2026 $48→Sept 2026 $76	6–12 months	+58.3%
#59513697	Oct 2025 $46→Sept 2026 $55	6–12 months	+19.6%
#57440082	Feb 2025 $40→Aug 2026 $75	Over a year	+87.7%
#54003172	Jan 2022 $38→Aug 2026 $85	Over a year	+122.7%
#58401471	Apr 2023 $25→Jun 2026 $100	Over a year	+300.2%
#54219939	Jun 2025 $34→Feb 2026 $65	6–12 months	+91.1%
#133257041	Jan 2026 $40→Feb 2026 $50	Under 3 months	+25.0%
#52582627	Sept 2021 $67→Feb 2026 $60	Over a year	-10.4%
#54578719	Mar 2025 $33→Jan 2026 $68	6–12 months	+105.1%
#51394782	Dec 2020 $76→Jan 2026 $39	Over a year	-48.7%

Showing the 10 most recent of 22 slabs with a history. 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 29 PSA 10 sales with a median of $80; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 3 PSA 10 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-23	60289044	$71.02
2020 Pokemon SWSH Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX #190/189 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-22	—	$78.38
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-22	84860458	$76.00
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-21	59513697	$55.00
PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX 190/189 Darkness Ablaze Secret Rare Pokemon Card	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-09	—	$84.99
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-09	56148926	$72.00
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-09	54670448	$84.00
2020 Pokémon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX 190/189 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-06	70776800	$80.00
PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX #190 Secret Rare Rainbow SWSH Darkness Ablaze EN Pokemon	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-03	—	$85.00
Pokemon TCG Butterfree VMAX Secret Rare Holo Darkness Ablaze 190/189 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-03	—	$71.00
PSA 10 2020 Pokemon Darkness Ablaze Butterfree VMAX Secret 190/189 Holo FA	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$80.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Rainbow Rare Butterfree VMAX #190 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-13	—	$91.20
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Rainbow Rare Butterfree VMAX #190 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-11	—	$84.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Rainbow Rare Butterfree VMAX #190 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-30	—	$45.60

1–8 of 14 sales · 6 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

1,838

83.5% of 2,202 graded

Share of every submission

83.5%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

2,202

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 347 of 741. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Butterfree VMAX 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-35

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

8360%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-28

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

tier fee + shipping

Trader

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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.

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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 59 graded sales and a population of 4,411,716 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #190) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Butterfree VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $72, with a fair range of $72 to $101 — about 3.8× the $19 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 1 at auction, 4 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX exist?

PSA has graded 1,838 copies of Butterfree VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #190) a 10, out of 2,202 submitted — 83.5% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Butterfree VMAX hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-35; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 8360% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Butterfree VMAX has 29 recorded sales, 20 of them in the last 90 days, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.