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8 other Butterfree printings exist — is this your card? Generations 5/83 ↓
Butterfree — Generations #5

Rare HoloGenerations5/832016Illustrated by miki kudo

Butterfree 5/83 · Generations price & value

Raw · near mint

$3.89

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 9$153.9×
  • CGC 9$153.8×
  • PSA 7$123.1×
Sales recorded
28
every grade, since 2025
Last 90 days
14 raw · 21 all
10 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
Medium
14 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.
Latest sale
7d ago
raw
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Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. 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

    $3.89

    —

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $3.33

    −14%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $1.09

    −72%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $1.09

    −72%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $0.98

    −75%

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Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-12T07:31:51.779Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $2 — 49% below our near-mint estimate of $4 · 12 copies whose seller declares wear left out of that comparison

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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

$1 – $9

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

4/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

+1%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

70/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$415 sales · 14 in 90d, sells regularly
  • PSA 9$203 sales
  • PSA 8$163 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 6$202 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9$142 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 0.5$152 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 8.5$121 sale · 1 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 28 sales for this card going back to 2025; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Butterfree 5/83 Holo Rare Generations Pokemon NMRaweBay2026-09-10—$0.71
Butterfree 5/83 Generations MP Pokémon TCGRaweBay2026-09-09—$2.19
2016 Pokemon XY Butterfree Holo Generations 5/83 PSA 8 NM-MTPSA 8eBay2026-09-08—$29.99
Butterfree 5/83 Holo Rare Generations Pokemon Near MintRaweBay2026-09-04—$3.98
2016 POKEMON GENERATIONS HOLO 5/83 BUTTERFREE CGC 9CGC 9eBay2026-08-27—$13.50
2016 Pokemon XY Generations Holo Butterfree #5 CGC AUTHCGC 0.5Fanatics2026-08-23—$25.00
2016 Pokemon XY Generations Holo Butterfree #5 CGC AUTHCGC 0.5Fanatics2026-08-23—$5.00
Butterfree 5/83 Holo Rare - XY Generations - Pokemon Card 2016RaweBay2026-08-17—$5.04

1–8 of 19 sales · 0 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 9pop 26$153.9× raw
  • CGC 9pop 12modelled$153.8× raw
  • PSA 7pop 7modelled$123.1× raw
  • Ungraded$4

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

6.6%

4 of 61

PSA 9

42.6%

26 of 61

Total PSA graded

61

every grade, all time

  • PSA 61 graded
  • CGC 38 graded
  • BGS 1 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

Butterfree is a Holo / V / ex in Generations— the pack’s hit slot lands on holo / v / ex 28.6% of the time, split across 21 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 74 packs.

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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 13 graded sales · fees as of 2026-09-16.

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

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Generations #5/83, 2016. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Reverse Holo
The card body, not the picture

Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.

Holofoilpriced on this page
The illustration window

The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.

Not this card?

The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates them — this page prices 5/83.

#5/165 Expedition Base Set · 2002

Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

Across the markets

13% apart
  • PriceCharting$3
  • TCGplayer$4
  • Our raw sold median$4

Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.

About Butterfree

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Butterfree is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Generations (#5, released 2016), illustrated by miki kudo. It’s a Stage 2 Grass-type Pokémon with 130 HP, evolving from Metapod, weak to Lightning ×2. It’s listed among our holo rares.

#12 most valuable Butterfree of 25#50 most valuable in Generations of 117

Card text

Evolves from Metapod.

Quiver Dance

Grass

Search your deck for a basic Energy card and attach it to this Pokémon. Shuffle your deck afterward. If you attached Energy in this way, heal 40 damage from this Pokémon.

Gust70

Grass · Colorless · Colorless

Weakness Lightning ×2Resistance Fighting -20Retreat 1

“It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen.”

The Pokémon

Butterfly PokémonGEN I

Caterpie → Metapod → Butterfree

In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.

Card details

Set
Generations
Number
#5
Rarity
Rare Holo
Released
2016
Pokémon
All Butterfree cards
Generation
Gen I · Kanto
Artist
miki kudo
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Stage 2
Type
Grass
HP
130
National Pokédex
#12
Card ID
g1-5
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Butterfree (Generations #5) worth?

As of 16 September 2026, Butterfree from Generations is worth approximately $4 ungraded in near-mint condition. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

How often does Butterfree sell?

CardTrack recorded 21 completed sales of Butterfree (Generations #5) across every grade in the last 90 days, 14 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-10. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Butterfree rare?

Butterfree is a Rare Holo card from Generations (card #5), released in 2016.