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8 other Persian printings exist — is this your card? Jungle 42/64 ↓
Persian — Jungle #42

UncommonJungle42/641999Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno

Persian 42/64 · Jungle price & value

Raw · near mint

$2.63

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$14053×
  • PSA 9$4417×
  • PSA 8$2811×
Sales recorded
141
every grade, since 2026
Last 90 days
99 raw · 122 all
64 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
99 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
5d ago
raw · any grade 2d ago
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 102 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

    $2.63

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $2.43

    −8%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $2.26

    −14%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $0.42

    −84%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $0.36

    −86%

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

$3▲ 75%over 6 years

2021-01-01 → 2026-09-20

$1
$1
$2
$5
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Ratio (log) price axis — this series spans 8×, and a linear axis would flatten its first years into the floor. Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.
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Estimated value · Pack fresh
Based on 59 sold sales

The top 5% of this card's sales — pack-fresh examples — sold for $3.99 or more. That's about +52% over a typical Near Mint copy.

ⓘ How do we work this out?

We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (59 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.

Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.

Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.

These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-12T07:08:25.917Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $1 — 52% below our near-mint estimate of $3 · 15 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 – $23

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

23/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

0%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

71/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$2104 sales · 99 in 90d, sells often
  • CGC 8.5$109 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 9$444 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 8$284 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
  • CGC 9$133 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9.5$172 sales
  • CGC 8$102 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 6.5$62 sales · 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 141 sales for this card going back to 2026; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
1999 Pokemon Jungle Persian #42 CGC 8.5 NM-MT+CGC 8.5Fanatics2026-09-18—$14.00
1999 Pokemon Jungle Persian #42 CGC 6 EXMTCGC 6Fanatics2026-09-17—$8.00
Persian 42/64 Uncommon Jungle Pokemon Unlimited LPRaweBay2026-09-15—$2.15
Persian - Jungle Set Unlimited 42/64 - WoTC Uncommon Pokemon Card EXC ConditionRaweBay2026-09-13—$3.04
Pokemon Persian 42/64 LP Unlimited JungleRaweBay2026-09-11—$2.34
1999 Pokemon Jungle Persian #42 CGC 7.5 NRMT+CGC 7.5Fanatics2026-09-11—$20.00
Pokemon Persian Uncommon 42/64 Jungle Unlimited LPRaweBay2026-09-10—$1.99
Persian 42/64 Unlimited Uncommon Jungle Pokemon LPRaweBay2026-09-08—$1.99

1–8 of 74 sales · 38 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 123$14053× raw
  • PSA 9pop 241$4417× raw
  • PSA 8pop 126$2811× raw
  • PSA 7pop 68modelled$145.1× raw
  • CGC 8.5pop 303$103.8× raw
  • Ungraded$3

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

18.8%

123 of 654

PSA 9

36.9%

241 of 654

Total PSA graded

654

every grade, all time

  • PSA 654 graded
  • CGC 1,681 graded
  • BGS 38 graded
  • TAG 35 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

Persian is a uncommon card — a guaranteed slot in every pack rather than a rarity gamble, so there is no pull-odds figure for it.

Is Persian worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-23

after fees, all grades

Best case

$66

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$70

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.

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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 35 graded sales and a population of 1,890,476 · fees as of 2026-09-19.

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More Persian and more from Jungle

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 Jungle #42/64, 1999. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

1st Edition printing
1st Edition
Bottom-left of the illustration window

A black “EDITION 1” stamp sits to the left of the picture, between the illustration and the card's lower text. No stamp means it is not 1st Edition, whatever else the listing says.

Unlimitedpriced on this page
Right-hand edge of the illustration window

On the WOTC printings (1999–2002): a grey drop shadow runs down the right side of the picture frame, and there is no edition stamp. This is the common printing and the cheapest of the three.

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 42/64.

#42/144 Skyridge · 2003

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

21% apart
  • PriceCharting$2
  • Our raw sold median$2

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.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$1 – $6

Today’s price sits 36% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

🔥 Trending in the community

#95 on the radar

Mentions this week

2

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About Persian

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

Persian is a Uncommon Pokémon card from Jungle (#42, released 1999), illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. It’s a Stage 1 Colorless-type Pokémon with 70 HP, evolving from Meowth, weak to Fighting ×2.

#22 most valuable Persian of 36#46 most valuable in Jungle of 64

Card text

Evolves from Meowth.

Scratch20

Colorless · Colorless

Pounce30

Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

If the Defending Pokémon attacks Persian during your next turn, any damage done by the attack is reduced by 10 (after applying Weakness and Resistance). (Benching either Pokémon ends this effect.)

Weakness Fighting ×2Resistance Psychic -30

“Although its fur has many admirers, it is tough to raise as a pet because of its fickle meanness.”

The Pokémon

Classy Cat PokémonGEN I

Meowth → Persian

Although its fur has many admirers, it is tough to raise as a pet because of its fickle meanness.

Card details

Set
Jungle
Number
#42
Rarity
Uncommon
Released
1999
Pokémon
All Persian cards
Generation
Gen I · Kanto
Artist
Kagemaru Himeno
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Stage 1
Type
Colorless
HP
70
National Pokédex
#53
Card ID
base2-42
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Persian (Jungle #42) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Persian from Jungle is worth approximately $3 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $140 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Persian?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Persian from Jungle is worth around $140 — roughly 53× the raw ungraded value of $3.

Should I grade my Persian?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-23 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Persian sell?

CardTrack recorded 122 completed sales of Persian (Jungle #42) across every grade in the last 90 days, 99 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-18. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Persian rare?

Persian is a Uncommon card from Jungle (card #42), released in 1999.