# Share your first Graded 10 purchase! **URL:** \ **Category:** Collecting\ **Tags:** show-off, collection\ **Created:** [February 2, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459 "2026-02-02T16:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thsigma](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thsigma/32/2419_2.png) [@thsigma](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thsigma)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/1 "2026-02-02T16:06:57Z")
What is the first 10 you have ever _ **bought** _, **not graded** , yourself? Was it a chase, a random ebay bin, an impulse buy? Do you regret it? Do you still have it? Share below! All companies welcome! Just make sure its a card you bought as a 10. My first psa 10 purchase was this Koga’s Koffing I bought a year ago or so. Its one of my favorite Koffing arts, in part cause it has multiple Koffings featured. Even in modern cards its somewhat rare to have the same pokemon featured multiple times, albeit more common today. I still own the card and see very little reason to sell it, especially as its also my first graded card ever. ![IMG_9051](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/7/c708e838324fb223ddda7ecb705a2f373c7d1404.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![thundermoo](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thundermoo/32/26253_2.png) [@thundermoo](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thundermoo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/2 "2026-02-02T16:17:06Z")
![unknown-35~2](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/a/b/ab75ab1e9856d2ae76dbf67715b4c19f7dee6b3a.jpeg) Beast of a card in the meta at the time, won on auction for around $20 in 2017. Still own it! ---
**Author:** ![caughtatpoint](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/caughtatpoint/32/186754_2.png) [@caughtatpoint](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/caughtatpoint)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/3 "2026-02-02T16:18:22Z")
I don’t have it anymore, but I’m pretty sure it was a Charizard 002/PCG-P promo, from the 2004 Battle Road, which I think I bought in 2015. I don’t regret buying it, or selling it. I will say that the options for buying graded cards back then were much more limited, which I don’t think is necessarily a bad thing. These days you can probably buy a PSA 6 bulk common and think ‘yeah grading sucks’, when in reality it’s that specific card that doesn’t make you feel anything. The flip side is that you can buy graded cards for next to nothing, to at least try and understand. ![pkmn-tcg-7307025-yu](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9aab894e49acaad4c4839a2cee9ef83f65f2b5b.webp) ---
**Author:** ![eeveeteam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eeveeteam/32/2219_2.png) [@eeveeteam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eeveeteam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/4 "2026-02-02T16:20:33Z")
![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/3/b/3b3efb40031d79bb5fab097638e4e221b3e03483.png) ---
**Author:** ![ddk](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/ddk/32/233929_2.png) [@ddk](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/ddk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/5 "2026-02-02T16:26:29Z")
PSA 10 Skyridge Steelix holo from the looks of it :energymetal: ---
**Author:** ![pikachutcg](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pikachutcg/32/253974_2.png) [@pikachutcg](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pikachutcg)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/6 "2026-02-02T16:29:01Z")
My first graded 10 purchase was this victory medal. Though I don’t have it anymore sadly! ![Screenshot_20260202_162141_eBay](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/2/0/20e213e33463d0b327a88f39a0736d1604892793.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![frisianlunatic](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/frisianlunatic/32/213029_2.png) [@frisianlunatic](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/frisianlunatic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/7 "2026-02-02T16:30:52Z")
![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/1/019bbb0107fed9f17b5d41caaf2ab405a5a71cd3.jpeg) This one around 2017/2018 i think, for 15,- euro’s ---
**Author:** ![Bellsprout](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/bellsprout/32/198969_2.png) [@Bellsprout](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Bellsprout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/8 "2026-02-02T16:31:10Z")
![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/3/7/375105a376e7dc6cd49f2ec5c90d41ad80db7f4c.jpeg) this is the card that made me fall into the hobby at the age of 35. A deep, red dive, a masterpiece where you can litteraly feel the heat of sunset flow through pidgeot’s feathers (or a forest fire?) i still vividly remember being astonished upon discovering pokemon cards could deliver this kind of intense ablazement. It’s the tungstene red glow of Challenger thermal shield entering the atmosphere. ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/will/32/223509_2.png) [@Will](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/9 "2026-02-02T16:33:50Z")
![049ff948-04e8-4987-9fa2-3566373c62e7](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/e/5/e5dba6884a3a51a14f235b29a44cecc9435595fc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![alleybro](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/alleybro/32/244_2.png) [@alleybro](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/alleybro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/10 "2026-02-02T16:33:53Z")
![IMG_1470](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/4/7/47c93aa4e77009d948c87829d206b6e501e04e7e.jpeg) Always loved this work of art. ---
**Author:** ![fourthstartcg](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/fourthstartcg/32/163893_2.png) [@fourthstartcg](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/fourthstartcg)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/11 "2026-02-02T16:34:06Z")
Took me awhile to find it, but I believe this is the first PSA 10 I purchased and didn’t grade myself. $34.95 in 2015. ![PCG4 Umbreon ex PSA 10](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/b/0b9ada492c08f76b25de1cf7b4288e37c1e185fb.jpeg) ![Screenshot 2026-02-02 at 11.34.35 AM](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/9/4/946a4215c27236bc4b68ad9b513da4c5e6273e49.png) ---
**Author:** ![frisianlunatic](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/frisianlunatic/32/213029_2.png) [@frisianlunatic](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/frisianlunatic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/13 "2026-02-02T16:35:29Z")
Thats actually insane haha, love it ---
**Author:** ![Bellsprout](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/bellsprout/32/198969_2.png) [@Bellsprout](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Bellsprout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/14 "2026-02-02T16:36:48Z")
way overpriced for an overrated card 😪 ---
**Author:** ![thsigma](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thsigma/32/2419_2.png) [@thsigma](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thsigma)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/15 "2026-02-02T16:37:10Z")
Wow. Great art ---
**Author:** ![thsigma](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thsigma/32/2419_2.png) [@thsigma](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thsigma)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/16 "2026-02-02T16:38:20Z")
Love this Claydol. I lost (misplaced?) my childhood one but ended up buying another copy when I first got back into collecting. Raw though… ---
**Author:** ![Quuador](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/quuador/32/237215_2.png) [@Quuador](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Quuador)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/17 "2026-02-02T16:38:40Z")
I think I had already bought some other graded 9s at this point (not sure anymore which was my very first one 🤔 ), but my first 10 would be this old BGS/JSA-10 Mitsuhiro Arita autographed Pikachu (on the left): ![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/b/db17b2204c0810bcf47c584ebe13017686b903d6.jpeg) Bought both of these Pikachu at once, to have both an English and Japanese signature of Mitsuhiro Arita. Apparently I paid 196.50 USD for each of them if I look in my emails. 😅 ![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c95e13d67c4fff482d97f31f6c994c2cc6bddf69.png) Pretty dang steep for a September 2016 purchase, ngl. Then again, it was through PWCC auctions, which were always a bit higher. And there also weren’t nearly as many Mitsuhiro Arita autographed cards available back then compared to nowadays. 🤷 Also, TIL that Beckett used to collaborate with JSA for autograph authentication until November 2016, according to [this Autographs reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Autographs/comments/ucv6tw/is_this_beckettjsa_authentication_legit/), even though they’re competitors nowadays. A bit of history in these old slabs. 🙂 Greetz, Quuador ---
**Author:** ![thsigma](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thsigma/32/2419_2.png) [@thsigma](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thsigma)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/18 "2026-02-02T16:38:51Z")
Best team rocket card for sure. Not biased ---
**Author:** ![thurco](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/thurco/32/40589_2.png) [@thurco](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/thurco)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/19 "2026-02-02T16:52:50Z")
![chrome_tdYD69Uz2q](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/6/7/672415b18a7b0a5dff88b303d17e2f9fa7ac4173.png) crazy to think this was a _massive_ overpay at the time that had me considering all of my life choices ---
**Author:** ![frisianlunatic](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/frisianlunatic/32/213029_2.png) [@frisianlunatic](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/frisianlunatic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/20 "2026-02-02T17:00:43Z")
Haha i know that feeling, i drove 2 hours to pick up my aquapolis holo houndoom psa 9 for 80,- because sending it through the mail seemed too scary 💀 Times have changed. Must have been around 2017 ![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/4/1/41c247533dd89b58852e647f8e8d6540de4f8134.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![cyberurchin](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/cyberurchin/32/238991_2.png) [@cyberurchin](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/cyberurchin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459/21 "2026-02-02T17:11:21Z")
First 10 was with CGC. Pristine Karen’s Conviction. Purchased Nov 8, 2021 ![IMG_3856](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/e/4/e440fcf6d9669b8420693956ce48bec9554b52a6.jpeg) First PSA 10 was my Froslass UR from Blue Sky Stream Dec 12, 2023 ![IMG_2980](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/e/0e2bb3a121d94c1cb7a99d715e06f1a4ff92ab50.jpeg) [Next page](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/share-your-first-graded-10-purchase/60459.md?page=2)