Rarest item(s) in your collection

[nickofturl]

@Dizzle24

I mean, its only a 9 so I guess its trash

Still my rarest trash piece though for sure that i adore.

What a scrub…

[xzini]

@Dizzle24

I mean, its only a 9 so I guess its trash

Still my rarest trash piece though for sure that i adore.

Stonk investor Dizzle confirmed

[pichufan]

@woolsluk

Tied between lugia (psa 3.5 also which I’ve never seen on another pokemon card not that it means much)

As some fun PSA Pokémon trivia, the most infrequently appearing Pokémon grades out of the 1,495,228 Pokémon cards PSA has so far graded with a count below 1,000 are:

• Authentic - 726
• PSA 7.5 - 691
• PSA 8(Q) - 424
• PSA 1.5 - 153
• PSA 7(Q) - 129
• PSA 6(Q) - 77
• PSA 5.5 - 65
• PSA 5(Q) - 54
• PSA 4.5 - 38
• PSA 4(Q) - 31
• PSA 3.5 - 31
• PSA 3(Q) - 26
• PSA 2.5 - 18
• PSA 1(Q) - 12
• PSA 2(Q) - 11
• PSA 1.5(Q) - 1

At a cumulative 2,487 these make up just 0.167% of all the Pokémon PSA have graded - although considering most of these are badly printed and/or damaged that’s not very surprising.

[pikachutcg]

Great thread! lot’s of super rare items all over the place. I’m just a small fry binder collector so i do not have anything super crazy, Rarest is probably these Black Flame Ninetales. No clue on how many there are though but i know they are hard to come across!

Or unless you count printing errors, i pulled this Charizard with a holo ink dot back in 2016, Not seen another zard with one of these yet

[pfm]

[chrispy]

@pfm

Those are absolutely sick dude. I didn’t know you had those, congrats!

[parkermrparker]

@pichufan

@woolsluk

Tied between lugia (psa 3.5 also which I’ve never seen on another pokemon card not that it means much)

As some fun PSA Pokémon trivia, the most infrequently appearing Pokémon grades out of the 1,495,228 Pokémon cards PSA has so far graded with a count below 1,000 are:

• Authentic - 726
• PSA 7.5 - 691
• PSA 8(Q) - 424
• PSA 1.5 - 153
• PSA 7(Q) - 129
• PSA 6(Q) - 77
• PSA 5.5 - 65
• PSA 5(Q) - 54
• PSA 4.5 - 38
• PSA 4(Q) - 31
• PSA 3.5 - 31
• PSA 3(Q) - 26
• PSA 2.5 - 18
• PSA 1(Q) - 12
• PSA 2(Q) - 11
• PSA 1.5(Q) - 1

At a cumulative 2,487 these make up just 0.167% of all the Pokémon PSA have graded - although considering most of these are badly printed and/or damaged that’s not very surprising.

I was gifted a 2.5 japanese base magneton for secret santa good to know im holding one of the rarest items ever

[casual]

@rescuetoast

Just recently got this card actually. The stamped version is way harder to find then the spectators version.

There are 70 graded in the pop but that includes un stamped up until recently.

This also has my favorite starters, was given to an actual worlds competitor, and reminds me of my favorite trophy, OG tropical wind.

Thanks fazool for the sale!

I had a nm copy of this in my cart for $20 last year. Bought the unstamped for $6 instead since they were basically the same. lmaoooooo

nice card

[chrispy]

I think these are my rarest cards. The Illustration prizes and Art Academy prizes are around 100 copies each and the Cynthia’s feelings may be a little less. Honorable mention to the no number blueback zard in the second image. But I’m not sure if those are actually rare or what the deal is with them other than they are less rare than the blue and greenbacks in the same photo.

[amwolf]

@chrispy

I think these are my rarest cards. The Illustration prizes and Art Academy prizes are around 100 copies each and the Cynthia’s feelings may be a little less. Honorable mention to the no number blueback zard in the second image. But I’m not sure if those are actually rare or what the deal is with them other than they are less rare than the blue and greenbacks in the same photo.

That Cynthia’s Feelings really shot me in the heart lol also I’m pretty sure Cynthia’s Feelings is less just because I only see the same 2 or 3 sellers trying to sell their copy and no one biting lol congrats on that though, and all of these cards are so cool

[chrispy]

@amwolf

@chrispy

That Cynthia’s Feelings really shot me in the heart lol also I’m pretty sure Cynthia’s Feelings is less just because I only see the same 2 or 3 sellers trying to sell their copy and no one biting lol congrats on that though, and all of these cards are so cool

Thanks! Yep the Cynthia’s usually happen in private sales on the Western market though I did see a raw sell for $6,500 last year on the Japanese market. I believe that there are less than 100 of them from the research I did and bugging people who actually speak Japanese to translate articles and such for me. The Tournament was scheduled to span 5 venues nationwide in Japan over the course of 7 days but there was a bomb threat so the whole event was cancelled. Two of the 5 venues ended up getting to run their tournaments for two days before the cancellation happened, so a few were awarded and I’m sure some staff member may have kept a couple. Another card that fell victim to this event was the trophy card “Miracle Diamond”. However, Miracle diamond was also awarded in the 2007 tournament so there are supposedly 90 of those floating around.

[tenaciousm17]

@chrispy

@amwolf

Thanks! Yep the Cynthia’s usually happen in private sales on the Western market though I did see a raw sell for $6,500 last year on the Japanese market. I believe that there are less than 100 of them from the research I did and bugging people who actually speak Japanese to translate articles and such for me. The Tournament was scheduled to span 5 venues nationwide in Japan over the course of 7 days but there was a bomb threat so the whole event was cancelled. Two of the 5 venues ended up getting to run their tournaments for two days before the cancellation happened, so a few were awarded and I’m sure some staff member may have kept a couple. Another card that fell victim to this event was the trophy card “Miracle Diamond”. However, Miracle diamond was also awarded in the 2007 tournament so there are supposedly 90 of those floating around.

Ugh, Cynthia’s feelings is another one of those chase cards for me. Beautiful card!

[amwolf]

@chrispy

@amwolf

Thanks! Yep the Cynthia’s usually happen in private sales on the Western market though I did see a raw sell for $6,500 last year on the Japanese market. I believe that there are less than 100 of them from the research I did and bugging people who actually speak Japanese to translate articles and such for me. The Tournament was scheduled to span 5 venues nationwide in Japan over the course of 7 days but there was a bomb threat so the whole event was cancelled. Two of the 5 venues ended up getting to run their tournaments for two days before the cancellation happened, so a few were awarded and I’m sure some staff member may have kept a couple. Another card that fell victim to this event was the trophy card “Miracle Diamond”. However, Miracle diamond was also awarded in the 2007 tournament so there are supposedly 90 of those floating around.

I didn’t know the threat was a bomb threat, I’ve been following the card for awhile so I could snatch a messed up one to slot into my Cynthia binder set and call that a day, but I never realized the long ride I was in for or how much I’ll have to slowly trim off my paychecks to get her Congrats on having her, what grade do you have the card in? I can’t see in the image lol

[chrispy]

@amwolf

@chrispy

Thanks! Yep the Cynthia’s usually happen in private sales on the Western market though I did see a raw sell for $6,500 last year on the Japanese market. I believe that there are less than 100 of them from the research I did and bugging people who actually speak Japanese to translate articles and such for me. The Tournament was scheduled to span 5 venues nationwide in Japan over the course of 7 days but there was a bomb threat so the whole event was cancelled. Two of the 5 venues ended up getting to run their tournaments for two days before the cancellation happened, so a few were awarded and I’m sure some staff member may have kept a couple. Another card that fell victim to this event was the trophy card “Miracle Diamond”. However, Miracle diamond was also awarded in the 2007 tournament so there are supposedly 90 of those floating around.

I didn’t know the threat was a bomb threat, I’ve been following the card for awhile so I could snatch a messed up one to slot into my Cynthia binder set and call that a day, but I never realized the long ride I was in for or how much I’ll have to slowly trim off my paychecks to get her Congrats on having her, what grade do you have the card in? I can’t see in the image lol

It’s a PSA9 that I bought off of @masonkampe when I first got back into Pokemon. I also have a raw that I’m hoping will score a 10. Fingers are crossed.

[amwolf]

@chrispy

@amwolf

I didn’t know the threat was a bomb threat, I’ve been following the card for awhile so I could snatch a messed up one to slot into my Cynthia binder set and call that a day, but I never realized the long ride I was in for or how much I’ll have to slowly trim off my paychecks to get her Congrats on having her, what grade do you have the card in? I can’t see in the image lol

It’s a PSA9 that I bought off of @masonkampe when I first got back into Pokemon. I also have a raw that I’m hoping will score a 10. Fingers are crossed.

A 9 is never bad when you can’t even find the card lol Beautiful card man, hope you get that 10!

[Taigataipan]

There are many graded cards which probably would deserve a place in this post but I’ll choose BGS 10 1st ed. Feraligatr 5/111, really unique piece sitting in Neo Genesis collection.

I also give lots of credit to japanese ADV/PCG era sealed boxes like this 1st ed. Clash of the Blue Sky, almost magical and mesmerizing things to examine.

[hamster]

These just came in the mail and I’m fairly sure they are the rarest cards in my collection. They had a really unique and interesting release which made me gravitate towards them more than their PLAY counterparts. Not only that but they have a star pattern that covers the card as well as the traditional cosmos foil (I’ve tried my best to take pictures of it but its quite difficult). WCP as a set is really strange as it is just Power Keepers in Japanese but the set was only available to players 3 weeks leading up to the 2007 World Championships. I’m not very knowledgeable about the card game competitively but apparently this set was pretty unpopular as not many cards were playable ;3;. I wish I could say I managed to snag the Unlimited print of these cards which are significantly rarer but sadly I’ll have to settle for the 1st ed print, even though they are more common I definitely think they are still quite rare due to its idiosyncratic release and low pop.

Link to video of sparkles

[GymLeaderTaylor]

Probably these right now! So very happy to own them

[chrispy]

@GymLeaderTaylor

Probably these right now! So very happy to own them

what’s the story with those?

[Taigataipan]

@chrisbalestra
Finding any japanese E1 cards as unlimited versions is really difficult task.