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Check your printing7 different Melmetal printings exist — is this your card? Unbroken Bonds #129
Melmetal Unbroken Bonds #129 Pokémon card
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Melmetal129/214 · Unbroken Bonds Price & Value

2019 · Illustrated by Kouki Saitou
150 HPMetalPokémonStage 1

Market value · Near Mint

$19.95
LiquidityRarely sells
Confidence11 · low1 raw sale in 90 days, closely clustered, last sale 3 months ago.
Sales · 90 days1
Range$20$25
No completed sales recorded yet. This is a marketplace asking price, which usually sits above what copies actually sell for. It becomes a sold-based price as soon as this card starts trading. eBay + TCGplayer. Updated 15 September 2026. 2 sources agree within 31%. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Every price on this page is for Unbroken Bonds #129/214, 2019. 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.

Holofoil
The illustration window

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

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Melmetal is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Unbroken Bonds (#129, released 2019), illustrated by Kouki Saitou. It's a Stage 1 Metal-type Pokémon with 150 HP, evolving from Meltan, weak to Fire ×2. It's listed among our holo rares. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 15 September 2026.

Melmetal price history & recent sales

Price history · raw near-mint

14 Jul 202615 Sept 2026
Latest
$19.95
Period high
$19.95
Period low
$0.53
Change
3664.2% · all time
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Verified sales history

Low confidence

Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.

Range$3.00$3.49Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales0 / 1last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate0.3/mo2 recorded, every grade
Latest sale87d agoRaw1 in 90 days
Demandtoo few recent sales to score
Last sold
$3
Raw · 20 Jun 2026
Typical Raw
$3
Sales · last 90 days
1
How often it sells
No sales in the last 30 days
0 in last 30 days
Worn-condition sales — shown for context, not price-forming
These listings claimed play wear in the title (LP/MP/played/damaged), so they sell below the Near Mint price above and are excluded from it.

Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.

Recent Raw sales

From 2 completed sales recorded between May 6, 2026 and Jun 20, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

Is Melmetal worth grading?

Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually 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.
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The odds

Melmetal is a Holo / V / ex in Unbroken Bonds — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 36 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 129 packs.

Holo / V / ex27.9%36 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)40.9%9 of 22
PSA 950%11 of 22
PSA graded so far22
Gem Mint 109
Total graded22

Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.

Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates

9 of the 22 PSA-graded Melmetal copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 41%. The rest graded lower.

PSA22 gradedPSA 10 · 9 · 41% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 22.

10941%
91150%
814.5%
714.5%
CGC16 gradedCGC 10 · 1 · 6.3% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 16.

1016.3%
9425%
8.5531%
8319%
6.516.3%
BGS2 gradedBGS 10 · 1 · 50% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2.

10150%
9.5150%

Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Melmetal 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices

We don't have a graded price for this card yet — there aren't enough verified graded sales to publish one we'd trust. A grade only appears here once enough real sold results back it. See the raw (ungraded) estimate above in the meantime.

Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Holofoil · NM = our estimate, lower conditions use TCGplayer condition ratios · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$19.95
7-dayflat
30-day 25.2%
90-day 25.2%
All-time high$20
All-time low$16
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$1
Holofoil$1

TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

31% spread
tp · cheapest$1
Cardmarket · dearest$1

Currently 31% cheaper on tp than Cardmarket. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Cross-marketMarkets disagree 31% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🔥 Trending in the community

#225 on the radar
Mentions this week1

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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Evolves from Meltan.

Metal EaterAbility

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Metal Pokémon from your hand. If you do, heal 100 damage from this Pokémon.

Heavy Impact130
Metal · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Weakness Fire ×2Resistance Psychic -20Retreat 4

Revered long ago for its capacity to create iron from nothing, for some reason it has come back to life after 3,000 years.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Hex Nut PokémonGEN VIIMythical

Revered long ago for its capacity to create iron from nothing, for some reason it has come back to life after 3,000 years.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#129
RarityRare Holo
Released2019
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesStage 1
TypeMetal
HP150
Evolves fromMeltan
WeaknessFire ×2
ResistancePsychic -20
Retreat cost4
National Pokédex#809
Card IDsm10-129
SourceAggregated marketplaces

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There are 7 different Melmetal printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Unbroken Bonds #129 (Rare Holo).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Melmetal (Unbroken Bonds #129) worth?

As of 15 September 2026, Melmetal from Unbroken Bonds is worth approximately $19.95 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.

Is Melmetal rare?

Melmetal is a Rare Holo card from Unbroken Bonds (card #129).

How do I know if my Melmetal is 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.

How do I know if my Melmetal is Holofoil?

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

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