Charmander23/185 · Vivid Voltage Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 8$18modelled · pop 23
- PSA 9$252 sold · 90d · pop 209
- PSA 10$685 sold · 90d · pop 465
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Every price on this page is for Vivid Voltage #23/185, 2020. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
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✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Charmander is a Common Pokémon card from Vivid Voltage (#23, released 2020), illustrated by MAHOU. It's a Basic Fire-type Pokémon with 70 HP, weak to Water ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 11 September 2026.
Charmander price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Low confidenceOnly 1 sale in the last 90 days. · Liquid — Sells regularly
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.
By grade
- PSA 9$25.0010 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 10$67.505 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$16.504 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 8$30.504 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9.5$20.402 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 10$68.502 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- Raw$11.501 sale
- PSA 8$12.001 sale
Is Charmander worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $67 against the $70 you put in, a $3 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $25–$67. Averaged over every outcome that is −$20 a card.
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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.
The odds
Charmander is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.
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.
Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
| Target grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $67.50 | $71 | −$3 | 270.0× |
| PSA 9 | $24.99 | $70 | −$46 | 100.0× |
| PSA 8 | $18.38 | $70 | −$52 | 73.5× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 723 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 64.2% | $67.50 |
| PSA 9 | 28.6% | $24.99 |
| PSA 8 | 2.9% | $18.38 |
| PSA 7 | 1.2% | $0.25 |
| PSA 6 | 0.8% | $0.25 |
| PSA 5 | 1.1% | $0.25 |
| PSA 4 | 0.3% | $0.25 |
| PSA 3 | 0.1% | $0.25 |
| PSA 1 | 0.1% | $0.25 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.6% | $0.25 |
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
465 of the 724 PSA-graded Charmander copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 64%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 724.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 832.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 11.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 6.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Charmander 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Charmander - 023/185 - Common (Lp) Vivid Voltage - Fire PokémonRaw · eBay$0.99
Charmander #23/185 Vivid Voltage Pokemon Common Card NMRaw · eBay$0.99
Charmander Normal Common SWSH04: Vivid Voltage 023/185 NMRaw · eBay$0.99
Pokemon TCG Trading Card 2020 Vivid Voltage -- Charmander 23/185Raw · eBay$0.99
Charmander 023/185 Common Vivid Voltage Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$0.99
Pokemon Card Vivid Voltage Charmander & Charmeleon 023/185 024/185 Near MintRaw · eBay$1.00Cheapest raw copy $0.99 — 296% above our near-mint estimate of $0
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 465 | $68$57–$78 | |
| PSA 9pop 209 | $25$21–$29 | |
| PSA 8pop 23 | modelled$18$4–$30 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately
Price by variant
TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Charmander (Vivid Voltage #23) worth?
As of 11 September 2026, Charmander from Vivid Voltage is worth approximately $0.25 ungraded (near-mint), and around $68 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Charmander?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Charmander from Vivid Voltage is worth around $68 — roughly 270× the raw ungraded value of $0.25.
Should I grade my Charmander?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Charmander rare?
Charmander is a Common card from Vivid Voltage (card #23).
How do I know if my Charmander 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.
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