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Pokémon Promos — Grading Results & Availability

PSA Grading Results: Japanese Pokémon Promos — Five 10s, Three 9s

Last month we featured a collection of ten Japanese Pokémon promotional cards that had arrived at CardHawk for PSA grading. The first eight have come back, and the results are in.

Five PSA 10 GEM MINT. Three PSA 9 MINT. Eight for eight on a 9 or above.

For those of you who follow the grading market closely, you’ll know exactly what those numbers mean. For everyone else: this is a stunning return on a single submission. The difference between PSA 9 and PSA 10 on modern Japanese promos is often the difference between a strong card and a market-defining one. Five GEM MT grades on cards of this calibre is the kind of result that makes the case for professional grading more eloquently than any sales pitch ever could.

The Grading Results

150/XY-P PSA 10: PSA 10 GEM MT graded Magikarp Poncho Pikachu Japanese Pokemon promo card 150/XY-P 2015 cert 156134576

Magikarp Poncho Pikachu — 150/XY-P (2015) — PSA 10 GEM MT
PSA cert 156134576. Hiroshima Pokémon Center promo. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

151/XY-P PSA 10: PSA 10 GEM MT graded Gyarados Poncho Pikachu Japanese Pokemon promo card 151/XY-P 2015 cert 156134574

Gyarados Poncho Pikachu — 151/XY-P (2015) — PSA 10 GEM MT
PSA cert 156134574. Companion to the Magikarp card, also from the Hiroshima Pokémon Center release. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

208/XY-P PSA 10: PSA 10 GEM MT graded Poncho Pikachu Mega Charizard Y Japanese Pokemon promo card 208/XY-P 2016 cert 156035254

Poncho Pikachu (Mega Charizard Y) — 208/XY-P (2016) — PSA 10 GEM MT
PSA cert 156035254. The M.C. Y Pikachu Special Box promo. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

230/XY-P PSA 10: PSA 10 GEM MT graded Poncho Pikachu Mega Rayquaza Japanese Pokemon promo card 230/XY-P 2016 cert 156134575

Poncho Pikachu (Mega Rayquaza) — 230/XY-P (2016) — PSA 10 GEM MT
PSA cert 156134575. The Rayquaza Poncho-Wearing Pikachu Box promo. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

013/SM-P PSA 10: PSA 10 GEM MT graded Team Skull Pikachu Japanese Pokemon promo card 013/SM-P 2016 cert 156134573

Team Skull Pikachu (Cosplay) — 013/SM-P (2016) — PSA 10 GEM MT
PSA cert 156134573. Full Art Special Box P.G.P. promo. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

231/XY-P PSA 9: PSA 9 MINT graded Poncho Pikachu Shiny Mega Rayquaza Japanese Pokemon promo card 231/XY-P 2016 cert 156134571

Poncho Pikachu (Shiny Mega Rayquaza) — 231/XY-P (2016) — PSA 9 MINT
PSA cert 156134571. The shiny variant of the Mega Rayquaza poncho. Illustrated by Kouki Saitou.

288/SM-P PSA 9: PSA 9 MINT graded Pikachu Munch The Scream Japanese Pokemon promo card 288/SM-P 2018 cert 156134572

Pikachu “The Scream” — 288/SM-P (2018) — PSA 9 MINT
PSA cert 156134572. The 2018 Munch: A Retrospective collaboration with the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Illustrated by You Iribi.

289/SM-P PSA 9: PSA 9 MINT graded Mimikyu Munch The Scream Japanese Pokemon promo card 289/SM-P 2018 cert 156035255

Mimikyu “The Scream” — 289/SM-P (2018) — PSA 9 MINT
PSA cert 156035255. The Mimikyu version of the Munch collaboration. Illustrated by Hasuno.

What this tells you about CardHawk grading submissions

An eight-card submission returning five PSA 10s and three PSA 9s is, by any measure, an exceptional outcome. It speaks to the quality of the cards themselves — clearly stored and handled with care from the moment they were acquired — but it also reflects the importance of professional submission.

Centring, surface, edges, corners. PSA examines all four with the kind of forensic attention that determines whether a card is graded a 9 or a 10. At CardHawk we inspect every card before submission, document its condition in detail, and ensure it reaches PSA in the same state in which it left the owner. We don’t take chances with cards of this value, and the results speak for themselves.

If you have Pokémon, sports, or other trading cards you would like submitted to PSA — whether one card or an entire collection — we handle the process from end to end. Visit cardhawkgrading.com for details.

Now Available to Serious Collectors

The owner of this collection has now instructed us to facilitate sales of these cards on their behalf, subject to acceptable offers. All eight cards are available individually.

If you are a serious collector interested in any of these cards, please get in touch directly. We will discuss your interest, the owner’s minimum acceptable price for the card in question, and arrange a private transaction. We expect significant interest in the PSA 10 examples in particular, and cards will be allocated on a first-serious-offer basis rather than auction.

Those of you who joined our notification list following last month’s post will be contacted directly with first refusal before any wider listing.

The Two Cards Still at PSA

For completeness: the original submission consisted of ten cards, of which two are still at PSA awaiting grading — the Eevee Munch “The Scream” (287/SM-P) and the Team Skull Grunt Pikachu group card (014/SM-P). We will publish their results as soon as they return.

A note to collectors

If you have vintage sports cards, photographs, or ephemera — particularly pre-World War I material — and might be interested in selling, we’d love to hear from you. Items from this era often turn up in inherited collections, old scrapbooks, and attics, and their owners are frequently unaware of their significance. We are always interested and always buying. We are also keen buyers of high-grade Japanese Pokémon promos.