Butterfree — Expedition Base Set #5, PSA 10

Rare HoloExpedition Base Set5/1652002PSA 10

Butterfree 5/165 · Expedition Base Set PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$204,000

Fair buy $107,100 · sell $204,0001139× rawUpdated 24 October 2026

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Raw NM$179
PSA 9$1,4818.3×
PSA 10this page$204,0001139×

PSA 10 sales: 3; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 2; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 5 Oct 2026; one every ~145d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

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

No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.

Stock as of 23 October 2026.

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Why $204,000? Every PSA 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. A cert number means PSA tied the sale to a specific slab: click it to check the card, grade and serial on psacard.com. We hold 3 PSA 10 sales with a median of $60,001; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 10 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Butterfree #5 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-10-05	—	$204,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	AltAuction	2026-08-13	28560167	$60,001
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-06-08	106795251	$48,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-03-26	27937016	$50,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-11-01	47201379	$5,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2025-03-31	72014269	$1,500
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2018-03-09	27937016	$365

1–7 of 7 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

2 of 6 cert-verified sales were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 145 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($60,001) sits below the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 5 sales across 5 months, Mar 2025 to Aug 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$204,000▲ 126×over 366 days

2025-10-23 → 2026-10-24

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 126×, 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 $60,001 (Aug 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 3900% since Mar 2025

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 6 distinct slabs behind 7 cert-linked sales at this grade — 16.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#27937016	Mar 2018 $365→Mar 2026 $50,000	Over a year	+13598.6%

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.

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

2.3% of 816 graded

Share of every submission

2.3%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

816

every grade, all time

Grader	Gem mint	Graded	Share
PSA	19	816	2.3%
CGC	19	189	10.1%
BGS	4	38	10.5%
SGC	0	4	0.0%
TAG	0	9	0.0%

Gem mint is each grader’s top grade as the market reads it beside a PSA 10: CGC and SGC 10s with their Pristine and Perfect 10s, and Beckett 9.5s (Gem Mint) with its 10s and Black Labels. Share is that count out of everything the grader has graded. Another grader’s slab is its own market and is not in the price above. Totals include slabs graded authentic only.

Is the PSA 10 supply growing?

New PSA 10 slabs from PSA’s weekly counts, each change measured between the two report days shown; the weekly counts end on 19 Oct 2026, so the population above, PSA’s newest reading, can run ahead of them. Resubmissions count as new slabs, so this is the supply that reaches the market, not new copies of the card.

New PSA 10s over 4 weeks

19 → 19, 21 Sept 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

New PSA 10s over 90 days

19 → 19, 27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

Graded lately · 10s

0 of 43 graded 27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026 · all time 2.3%

New slabs against sales: no new PSA 10 slabs (27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026) against about 0.7 PSA 10 sales a month that we recorded over the last 90 days. Our record holds the sales we can see (eBay, PSA’s cert-verified sales and the auction houses we read), not every sale, and most slabs graded are never sold.

PSA 10 price against PSA’s PSA 10 count

PSA 10 price

$204,000$38,625

24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026

PSA 10 copies graded

1919

24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026

Both lines on PSA’s weekly report days for Butterfree. Side by side, not cause and effect.

PSA 10 against PSA 9

One grade apart, one Butterfree. Today’s prices are each page’s headline; the line over time is our recorded price index for both grades.

A PSA 9 sells for $1,481 against $204,000 for a PSA 10: 1% of the price, or a PSA 10 at 137.8× a 9.

PSA 10 price ÷ PSA 9 price

137.8×2.1×

1 Sept 202124 Oct 2026

On the index a PSA 10 was 137.8× a 9 on 24 Oct 2026, 44.9× on 22 Jul 2026, and 5.9× on 22 Oct 2025. A wider gap means the 10 has pulled further ahead of the 9.

Is Butterfree 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

$5,108

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

2.3%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$196,762

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$255

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.

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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 69 graded sales and a population of 1,890,605 · 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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Butterfree (Expedition Base Set #5) — PSA 10 market value USD $204,000, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/expedition-base-set/butterfree-5/psa-10

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Butterfree (Expedition Base Set #5) worth?

As of 24 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Butterfree from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $204,000, with a fair range of $107,100 to $204,000 — about 1139× the $179 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 145 days.

How many PSA 10 Butterfree exist?

PSA has graded 19 copies of Butterfree (Expedition Base Set #5) a 10, out of 816 submitted — 2.3% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Butterfree hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $255 grading fee is about $5,108; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 2.3% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Butterfree a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Butterfree has 3 recorded sales, 2 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.