All of the Evolutions holos, its mind-boggling that many are still Pop 0 or 1 after four years. Print lines be crazy…
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I always find it interesting comparing 1st Edition Base Set with Shadowless Base Set. The submission numbers for most of the holos are very similar, yet the 1st Edition versions usually have more higher grades:
| Card | 1st Edition (PSA 10) | Shadowless (PSA 10) |
| Alakazam | 1092 (85) | 938 (29) |
| Blastoise | 1619 (98) | 1553 (41) |
| Chansey | 1117 (46) | 843 (14) |
| Charizard | 2753 (121) | 3448 (54) |
| Clefairy | 1007 (64) | 765 (26) |
| Gyarados | 1046 (85) | 1330 (59) |
| Hitmonchan | 971 (54) | 1092 (40) |
| Magneton | 1028 (65) | 886 (54) |
| Mewtwo | 1052 (80) | 1336 (66) |
| Nidoking | 1122 (91) | 936 (43) |
| Ninetales | 956 (67) | 1238 (46) |
| Poliwrath | 1019 (98) | 872 (44) |
| Raichu | 1241 (87) | 822 (24) |
| Venusaur | 1442 (134) | 1464 (88) |
| Zapdos | 1197 (125) | 837 (57) |
Interestingly the PSA 9 numbers for both sets are also relatively similar (i.e. 650 PSA 9 1st Edition Charizards vs 600 PSA 9 Shadowless Charizards). Whilst I’m sure there are a lot of factors at play I feel like it could be argued that PSA used to be more lenient or that 1st Edition cards had a higher quality print run.
I feel like a Shadowless PSA 10 set would be a much greater achievement than a 1st Edition PSA 10 set.
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Natta Wake Birthday Pikachu is quite low in my opinion, 55 PSA 10’s in total.
Only looked at the pop report after having one graded and was quite surprised as I expect it to be in the hundreds but not in the dozens.
Pop 2 reverse holo, 10 normal holo
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This is interesting but could be due to people consistently sending 1st edition holos for 20 years but only sending shadowless in the later more recent years. If you believe PSA grading has become slightly more strict on PSA 10 cards in the past couple years, it could have an effect on the pop reports.
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Even if the psa being strict is the case, it seems hard to make up the difference. 121 out of 2.7k charizards in psa 10 and only 54 out of 3.4k shadowless charizards in psa 10. Kind of a crazy difference but regardless I’d agree a shadowless psa 10 set would be far more impressive.
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