It was around 17 years ago when I started collecting Pokemon cards. I remember the first time I bought 4 packs at the shop and in my last pack got the almighty Charizard. It was an amazing feeling and I was overwhelmed with offers from people trying to buy/trade me for it. After growing a nice collection over a few years I “grew up” and decided Pokemon cards were not cool and sold them all.
Nearly 17 years later I decided to collect the base/jungle/fossil sets which I bought and then I was introduced to PSA grading. At first I was amazed that the PSA grading process was out there and then I started to wonder what my cards would grade at. I read the PSA guidelines and did a lot of research and then realised my sets where not considered top quality and this bugged me…
Approximately 1 Year later I have made some PSA card purchases that I would like to share with you. I have been lurking on this forum for a year or so and I thought it was about time to share my collection and hopefully make some new friends.
Your 1st ed. Blaine’s Charizard confuses me a lot, how can cert number start with 9 when modern cards are 2xxxxxxx? Maybe I’m just missing something, hopefully someone can enlighten me…
Fixed the image links for ya - just need to add .jpg to the current imgur links you had to fix them.
Awesome PSA cards! I’ve always loved that Rocket’s Zapdos.
Blaine’s Charizard - No idea why the PSA number starts with a 9, it seems to check out on their website… Has anyone got any idea how this might happen? I was thinking incorrect data entry perhaps. 9 is next to 0 on the keyboards and it probably should be 00 at the start? I am not sure if pokemon even started when PSA was using 00 at the start?
The gym cards are some of my favourite and I think the art work is amazing on them. I plan to buy around 15 more PSA 10’s from various gen 1 sets in the next few months and also plan to complete my 1st ed. shadowless base set (still need 24 cards for that).
