Value and Print Run of 2005 Victory Medal GOLD

[thechimp]

Hey, guys!

Recently came across one of these and, while I am familiar with the pricing for various Victory Medals, the 2005 Gold medal appears to be quite a bit different. With a total PSA pop of 9 and a CGC pop of 0, I have absolutely no idea how to price this out. Only one listing for a PSA 10 over $23k. There is no recent sales data and no useful data in the PSA APR either.

The Silver medals are not worth very much, but their pop is also 10x higher with dozens available for sale raw.

I’ve been told that this is an extremely low print run card, with estimated in the 75 range, but I’m coming to you guys for some more information. Would greatly appreciate your support!

Card in question:

[quuador]

I don’t have too much to add I’m afraid. I know @siriusstarr recently acquired one of these. She told me about 42 known copies, but not sure where this number is coming from. Maybe she can shed some light on where this number comes from?

If I look on the Bulbapedia page for the Victory Medals, I see the following information for the Pikachu Victory Medals, with the portion in bold highlighting this golden ©2005 version in particular:

This card was first released in Japan as an Unnumbered Promotional card, and was awarded to the winners of regional Gym☆Challenge events held in game shops and store chains across the country between March and early May 2005. This print features artwork by Takumi Akabane, featuring Pikachu and a silver medal. Finalists were given preferential entry into the qualification round for their nearest 2005 Summer Battle Road event, and entry into their nearest Gym☆Final event. The winners of each regional Gym☆Final league were awarded a gold medal version of the same card. The 2005 Gym☆Final events took place at 7 select stores across Japan between May 14 and 27, 2005. Both of these prints are on the PCG Era card template and have a 2005 copyright.
Both a silver medal version and gold medal version were awarded in the same manner for the 2005-2006 season, with the 2006 Gym☆Final events taking place at 7 stores across Japan between May 14 and 28, 2006. Another silver medal version on the PCG Era card template with a 2005 copyright was awarded to winners of regional Gym☆Challenge events held in December 2006 and is further distinguished by a gold foil Gym☆Challenge 2006 stamp in the top right of the effect text area.

Silver and gold Victory Medals were awarded in the same manner for the 2006-2007 season. These prints are on the DP Era template and have a Black Star promo symbol. The silver versions have 2006 copyright and the gold versions have a 2007 copyright. Gym☆Final events took place between May 20 and June 3, 2007; however, due to the number of 2006-2007 gold Victory Medal prints that have surfaced, it is speculated that more Gym☆Final events were held in comparison to the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons.

Greetz,
Quuador

[caughtatpoint]

If you check PWCC’s Sales History (under their ‘Research’ tab), you’ll see they have auctioned two copies, both last year. One in November for $7250, and one in June for $12100.

According to Pokemetrics, there have been 4 graded in the last year, all of which graded 10. pokemetrics.org/misc/Victory%20Medal/19sp6

[cujucuyo]

Dang, thought I had this then I noticed mine has the black star at the bottom right.

[Frosty.Puppy]

Just adding this as pop reports can be misleading

[siriusstarr]

@caughtatpoint

If you check PWCC’s Sales History (under their ‘Research’ tab), you’ll see they have auctioned two copies, both last year. One in November for $7250k, and one in June for $12100.

According to Pokemetrics, there have been 4 graded in the last year, all of which graded 10. pokemetrics.org/misc/Victory%20Medal/19sp6

These are the prices that I’ve seen and that I’m going by, personally! Pretty fair for what it is!

[thechimp]

@Frosty.Puppy

Just adding this as pop reports can be misleading

This is not the same card. yours is the 2007 version and has a black star at the bottom right

[Frosty.Puppy]

@thechimp

This is not the same card. yours is the 2007 version and has a black star at the bottom right

If you look closer, you’ll understand why I posted this.

[siriusstarr]

@quuador

I don’t have too much to add I’m afraid. I know @siriusstarr recently acquired one of these. She told me about 42 known copies, but not sure where this number is coming from. Maybe she can shed some light on where this number comes from?

If I look on the Bulbapedia page for the Victory Medals, I see the following information for the Pikachu Victory Medals, with the portion in bold highlighting this golden ©2005 version in particular:

This card was first released in Japan as an Unnumbered Promotional card, and was awarded to the winners of regional Gym☆Challenge events held in game shops and store chains across the country between March and early May 2005. This print features artwork by Takumi Akabane, featuring Pikachu and a silver medal. Finalists were given preferential entry into the qualification round for their nearest 2005 Summer Battle Road event, and entry into their nearest Gym☆Final event. The winners of each regional Gym☆Final league were awarded a gold medal version of the same card. The 2005 Gym☆Final events took place at 7 select stores across Japan between May 14 and 27, 2005. Both of these prints are on the PCG Era card template and have a 2005 copyright.
Both a silver medal version and gold medal version were awarded in the same manner for the 2005-2006 season, with the 2006 Gym☆Final events taking place at 7 stores across Japan between May 14 and 28, 2006. Another silver medal version on the PCG Era card template with a 2005 copyright was awarded to winners of regional Gym☆Challenge events held in December 2006 and is further distinguished by a gold foil Gym☆Challenge 2006 stamp in the top right of the effect text area.

Silver and gold Victory Medals were awarded in the same manner for the 2006-2007 season. These prints are on the DP Era template and have a Black Star promo symbol. The silver versions have 2006 copyright and the gold versions have a 2007 copyright. Gym☆Final events took place between May 20 and June 3, 2007; however, due to the number of 2006-2007 gold Victory Medal prints that have surfaced, it is speculated that more Gym☆Final events were held in comparison to the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons.

Greetz,
Quuador

The information basically comes from an old Japanese website back in 2006! Here’s a screenshot of the page:

“Seven conferences were held each year with three age divisions. Two years. Total of 42 copies.” This is what I go on, but either way, the print run is definitely super low (at least around the 75 copies that Chimp stated) and the 2005 version of the card is amazingly difficult to come across. I’ve seen a few PSA mislabels stating “2005” when the slab holds a 2007 version, which is strange… You’d think PSA would know the difference and be more careful to avoid POP errors. Still a beauty!

[thechimp]

@Frosty.Puppy

@thechimp

This is not the same card. yours is the 2007 version and has a black star at the bottom right

If you look closer, you’ll understand why I posted this.

I will go cry in the corner now… my bad brother. thanks for the good word

[needszeebs]

i’ve been looking into early victory medals as well and noticed that bulbapedia was saying there was a gold medal for 2005 and 2006, but I wasn’t able to find them or any information on them anywhere! best i can do is the 2006 stamped silver lol

[siriusstarr]

@Frosty.Puppy

@thechimp

This is not the same card. yours is the 2007 version and has a black star at the bottom right

If you look closer, you’ll understand why I posted this.

Yeah, that’s one of those errors where they state “2005” but it’s a 2007… PSA is weird; you’d think they’d pay more attention.

[siriusstarr]

@needszeebs

i’ve been looking into early victory medals as well and noticed that bulbapedia was saying there was a gold medal for 2005 and 2006, but I wasn’t able to find them or any information on them anywhere! best i can do is the 2006 stamped silver lol

Best of luck finding one! It took me a long time to come across one, myself. The English Gold is pretty easy to get if you’re not able to get the Japanese version! I know a few are asking about mine after it gets graded (the one in the very first post of the thread).

[Frosty.Puppy]

There is an incredible collector of Japanese cards on IG who had posted 3 a couple of months ago.

[siriusstarr]

@Frosty.Puppy

There is an incredible collector of Japanese cards on IG who had posted 3 a couple of months ago.

If it’s who I think it is, I know them! They also are aware of the 42 copies if it’s the same collector. :]

[megashiningmagikarp]

Love this card. I’ve got nothing to add to this thread, just a random flex of my copy…
https://instagram.com/p/B-cNJ_MgMOU

[siriusstarr]

@megashiningmagikarp

Love this card. I’ve got nothing to add to this thread, just a random flex of my copy…
https://instagram.com/p/B-cNJ\_MgMOU

Love how yours has a swirl! Mine has cute little diamonds and a big sphere!

[redsticktcg]

I sadly sold my 2006 PSA 10 because it was too good of an offer to turn down. It sucks that PSA is so terrible at getting these medals labeled properly.

I do love these medals though, I have a few more raw ones I plan on sending in to PSA

This one is clearly not an 08 medal haha