P/C. PSA 10 Empoleon Lv X?

[pontislack]

#120, PSA 10.
Pop of 13 in 10’s, I see the Japanese one is a bit pricey, Was curious on the English.

Thanks

[fourthstartcg]

I believe @pokemonargentina may have sold one recently?

[pokemonargentina]

@fourthstartcg

I believe @pokemonargentina may have sold one recently?

Missread empoleon with leafeon haha! my bad.

[Troy]

Is this like the Milotic of the Lv Xs? Or is that more Leafeon? Pretty interesting. I didn’t know there was that much concentrated demand for some of these cards. Makes me regret not treating the ones I had as a kid better x)

[youngbambino]

@pokemonargentina

@fourthstartcg

I believe @pokemonargentina may have sold one recently?

I was never able to buy it, it was one of the 4 i was missing. I’d say the card is easy worth over $10.000 at this time considering how many people are trying to hunt it down.

If you happen to have it i’d toss it on eBay for $20.000 or best offer and see what kind of offers you get. My 2 cents!

For clarity, I think you might be referring to Leafeon or Glaceon but this thread is about Empoleon. Is that correct?

[pontislack]

Talking about Empoleon, Correct

[pontislack]

Did some POP Report checking.

Infernape - 29
Torterra - 57
Empoleon - 13

Jesus. Well, I have the chance to grab this card for silly money so upon hearing the former replies… Guess I’m pulling the trigger

[shizzlemetimbers]

I have sent like 20 Empoleon to PSA only scored two 10s

[randox]

Given the amount of grading for these cards was next to nothing pre 6 months ago, the pop reports will blow up substantially. They are hard to grade in PSA 10 so that will help the 10s but could still see quite a lot of movement even on those.

[pontislack]

@randox

Given the amount of grading for these cards was next to nothing pre 6 months ago, the pop reports will blow up substantially. They are hard to grade in PSA 10 so that will help the 10s but could still see quite a lot of movement even on those.

Eh, Between the start of 2019 and end of it, a lot (and I mean a lot) of D&P Boxes got broken, I alone did 15 and all those cards have been graded and done for a long while with the POP report still reflecting a marginal PSA 10:9 ratio. I think when D&P becomes a set people actually want to collect, LV. X’s in Low pop will trend decently.

[salmoncannon]

@shizzlemetimbers

I have sent like 20 Empoleon to PSA only scored two 10s

What would you say is the persisting issue with this card? I know cards from this time came out of the packs with dinged corners, but the ratio of 10s from that set indicates there was something particularly wrong with the Empoleon.

[randox]

@pontislack

@randox

Given the amount of grading for these cards was next to nothing pre 6 months ago, the pop reports will blow up substantially. They are hard to grade in PSA 10 so that will help the 10s but could still see quite a lot of movement even on those.

Eh, Between the start of 2019 and end of it, a lot (and I mean a lot) of D&P Boxes got broken, I alone did 15 and all those cards have been graded and done for a long while with the POP report still reflecting a marginal PSA 10:9 ratio. I think when D&P becomes a set people actually want to collect, LV. X’s in Low pop will trend decently.

Yeah but unless you were sure you had a PSA 10, there was very little incentive to send in a LV X card up until mid 2020. I think the 10s will go ok but they have already skyrocketed very quickly (like everything).

[zorloth]

What were the pull rates on these? 1 per box I’m assuming? Is the quality that much worse than it was for the exs?

[zubat]

@zorloth ,

Between Diamond and Pearl and Majestic Dawn, an average of 1 per box.

Between Legends Awakened and Arceus, an average of 2 per box.

[vehicularmenace]

Quality was bad on these. Lucky to get a mint lv x from pack. Especially anything that was ever in a tin or box set as a promo. The packaging really did a lot of those in.

[shizzlemetimbers]

@salmoncannon, Holo border fine scratches and whitening corner dots

[alakazamthat]

@shizzlemetimbers

@salmoncannon , Holo border fine scratches and whitening corner dots

pretty much, this goes for other cards from dp - platinum era.

I was lucky enough to grade alakazam MT in psa 10.
My abra MT has this one stupid tiny corner dot from pack fresh.