#BASE SET CHARIZARD PROFESSIONAL#
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PSA 7вЂ™s fetch $80 to $100 or even more on a good day. While this isnвЂ™t the case for more than 99.9 percent of trading cards out there, the Base Set Charizard card (first edition or not) is so iconic that even poor condition PSA 1 through good and excellent condition PSA 5 cards can still fetch $40! PSA 6 can fetch $60 or more. The card is so popular that the cost of grading only adds to the value of the card, regardless of the eventual grade.

#BASE SET CHARIZARD PROFESSIONAL#

Many of the Charizard holos sent in for grading now are simply in order to establish a professional grade. ThatвЂ™s why you see so many poor conditioned Charizards graded. Of course, as kids become adults and wonder what their cards were worth, some people send them in just to see what those cards may get. ThatвЂ™s why there are so many in high grade. As many serious collectors did with baseball cards, a few collectors did well to grade pack-fresh or near-mint raw copies to preserve their value. Talk about a range! Still, a lot of people early on knew that the first Pokemon cards were going to be a fairly good investment. Look at this population report for 1st Edition 1999 Base Set Charizard Holos from Pokemon Price: I've revised the population count for this article twice now. Now in early 2020, even more copies across all conditions have been sent in.

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In 2020, the submissions havenвЂ™t slowed down.Д®ven since I began my research for this series back in June 2019, about a thousand more copies were sent in for grading by just a few months later. So, the range of graded copies from 1 to 10 is immense. There arenвЂ™t nearly as many near-mint condition Charizard #4 cards out there as you may think.ДЄs collectors looked to standardize the conditions of their cards in order for future resale, PSA has received a glut of Charizard cards over the years. So, because of this, as copies have been snapped up by collectors, many of them are in less than your ordinarily desired condition. So, of course, many kids played with the cards and didnвЂ™t take proper care of them. His card was one of the most powerful at the time in the Trading Card Game. But, if you stuck with him, and evolved him to Charmeleon, then Charizard, you had a powerhouse of a Pokemon that could ride you all the way through the Pokemon League.Д«ack in 1999, Charizard was the one card every kid wanted. In the original Red and Blue Game Boy video games, his original form of Charmander was the hardest of the original three starting Pokemon to raise. At the time, Charizard was one of the most popular and feared Pokemon. Of course, it should be, as it was the primary chase card in the 1999 Base Set, when Pokemon was at its height of popularity. Obviously, the Charizard #4 Base Set holo is the MOST ICONIC of all Pokemon cards. Those are some great investments, right? Yes, but to best understand why Charizard is such a big deal, letвЂ™s look at the Charizard card most serious collectors can afford if they budget right.Д«ase Set Charizard is the Most Iconic Pokemon Trading Card of All Time

WeвЂ™re not even going to talk about the rarer Shadowless and the more common, yet still valuable, Unlimited Edition printing. We will focus on the 1st Edition version of the card. To better understand this phenomenon, letвЂ™s backtrack a little bit and take a look at the most popular Charizard card ever from a set known as Base Set. That Pokemon, of course, is one of the original Pokemon, Charizard. Whenever he appears in a set, collectors seem to flock to him. As we delve into the many sets of the Pokemon Trading Card Game in our Pokemon TCG Investing series, we will often notice a trend of popularity surrounding a certain Pokemon.

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