{ "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/how-many-psa-10-charizards-are-there", "slug": "how-many-psa-10-charizards-are-there", "title": "How Many PSA 10 Charizards Are There?", "summary": "PSA counts cards one registry line at a time, where a line is its own entry for one printing of one card, and it never adds them up. Our population tape, which is the daily copy we keep of PSA's own population report, covers 176 registry lines that name Charizard. Together they hold 1,272,923 PSA 10 Charizards as of October 10, 2026. Eighteen printings hold half of them, and about 1,193 more are recorded every day.", "section": "Grading economics", "published": "2026-10-10", "readMinutes": 19, "publisher": "moonstone", "findings": [ { "value": "1,272,923", "measures": "PSA 10 Charizards on our tape", "basis": "176 registry lines, latest snapshot per line, October 10 2026" }, { "value": "9.4%", "measures": "of every PSA 10 we record, of any card", "basis": "1,272,923 of 13,594,773 across 24,255 cleaned registry lines" }, { "value": "18", "measures": "printings hold half of them", "basis": "the thinnest 88 lines hold 4.7% between them" }, { "value": "+1,193", "measures": "new PSA 10 Charizards a day", "basis": "measured across 164 lines over the nine weeks to October 10" } ], "tables": [ { "title": "Same Pokemon, four printings, four completely different registries", "columns": [ "Printing", "PSA 10s", "Submitted", "Gem rate", "Ungraded", "PSA 10 median", "Sales behind that median" ], "rows": [ { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/base1-4)**, [Base Set](/set/base%20set) 4", "PSA 10s": "491", "Submitted": "107,004", "Gem rate": "0.46%", "Ungraded": "$928.06", "PSA 10 median": "$23,400.00", "Sales behind that median": "7, over 365 days" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/ecard3-146)**, [Skyridge](/set/skyridge) 146", "PSA 10s": "250", "Submitted": "1,767", "Gem rate": "14.15%", "Ungraded": "$1,500.00", "PSA 10 median": "$41,205.50", "Sales behind that median": "8, over 90 days" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard ex](/card/sv03.5-199)**, [151](/set/151) 199", "PSA 10s": "28,756", "Submitted": "105,571", "Gem rate": "27.24%", "Ungraded": "$321.26", "PSA 10 median": "$1,499.00", "Sales behind that median": "103, over 90 days" }, { "Printing": "**[Mega Charizard X ex](/card/mep-023)**, MEP promo 023", "PSA 10s": "56,254", "Submitted": "116,668", "Gem rate": "48.22%", "Ungraded": "$25.13", "PSA 10 median": "$180.51", "Sales behind that median": "904, over 90 days" } ] }, { "title": "Under 500 PSA 10s, with a PSA 10 median resting on five or more recorded sales", "columns": [ "Printing", "PSA 10s", "Submitted", "Gem rate", "Ungraded", "PSA 10 median", "Sales, window", "Multiple" ], "rows": [ { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/ex16-6)**, [Power Keepers](/set/power%20keepers) 6", "PSA 10s": "151", "Submitted": "3,169", "Gem rate": "4.76%", "Ungraded": "$179.05", "PSA 10 median": "$9,505.00", "Sales, window": "5, 90 days", "Multiple": "53.1x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/ex3-100)**, [Dragon](/set/dragon) 100", "PSA 10s": "167", "Submitted": "3,218", "Gem rate": "5.19%", "Ungraded": "$489.99", "PSA 10 median": "$23,786.00", "Sales, window": "9, 90 days", "Multiple": "48.5x" }, { "Printing": "**[M Charizard EX](/card/xy2-108)**, Flashfire 108", "PSA 10s": "176", "Submitted": "3,190", "Gem rate": "5.52%", "Ungraded": "$1,501.23", "PSA 10 median": "$15,000.00", "Sales, window": "5, 180 days", "Multiple": "10.0x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/smp-SM226)**, SM promo SM226", "PSA 10s": "186", "Submitted": "4,099", "Gem rate": "4.54%", "Ungraded": "$70.41", "PSA 10 median": "$4,227.25", "Sales, window": "6, 180 days", "Multiple": "60.0x" }, { "Printing": "**[Dark Charizard](/card/base5-21)**, Team Rocket 21", "PSA 10s": "243", "Submitted": "9,850", "Gem rate": "2.47%", "Ungraded": "$88.16", "PSA 10 median": "$1,625.00", "Sales, window": "5, 90 days", "Multiple": "18.4x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/ecard3-146)**, [Skyridge](/set/skyridge) 146", "PSA 10s": "250", "Submitted": "1,767", "Gem rate": "14.15%", "Ungraded": "$1,500.00", "PSA 10 median": "$41,205.50", "Sales, window": "8, 90 days", "Multiple": "27.5x" }, { "Printing": "**[Reshiram & Charizard GX](/card/smp-SM201)**, SM promo SM201", "PSA 10s": "372", "Submitted": "5,299", "Gem rate": "7.02%", "Ungraded": "$179.03", "PSA 10 median": "$11,050.00", "Sales, window": "8, 90 days", "Multiple": "61.7x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard EX](/card/xyp-XY121)**, XY promo XY121", "PSA 10s": "410", "Submitted": "12,291", "Gem rate": "3.34%", "Ungraded": "$183.14", "PSA 10 median": "$9,200.00", "Sales, window": "5, 90 days", "Multiple": "50.2x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/g1-RC5)**, [Generations](/set/generations) RC5", "PSA 10s": "434", "Submitted": "8,302", "Gem rate": "5.23%", "Ungraded": "$51.07", "PSA 10 median": "$1,600.00", "Sales, window": "15, 90 days", "Multiple": "31.3x" }, { "Printing": "**[Charizard](/card/base1-4)**, [Base Set](/set/base%20set) 4", "PSA 10s": "491", "Submitted": "107,004", "Gem rate": "0.46%", "Ungraded": "$928.06", "PSA 10 median": "$23,400.00", "Sales, window": "7, 365 days", "Multiple": "25.2x" } ] } ], "charts": [ { "title": "PSA 10s by Pokemon, both languages", "unit": null, "note": "Sum of the latest PSA 10 count on every cleaned registry line naming that Pokemon, October 10 2026. Lines that name two Pokemon count toward both.", "points": [ { "label": "Pikachu", "value": 1743069, "basis": "320 lines, 2,753,733 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard", "value": 1272923, "basis": "176 lines, 2,722,889 submitted" }, { "label": "Umbreon", "value": 340332, "basis": "80 lines, 563,881 submitted" }, { "label": "Mewtwo", "value": 339068, "basis": "129 lines, 698,619 submitted" }, { "label": "Mew", "value": 328731, "basis": "94 lines, 694,323 submitted" }, { "label": "Gengar", "value": 272388, "basis": "86 lines, 507,421 submitted" }, { "label": "Eevee", "value": 266465, "basis": "122 lines, 478,426 submitted" }, { "label": "Sylveon", "value": 185610, "basis": "57 lines, 283,398 submitted" }, { "label": "Venusaur", "value": 181278, "basis": "72 lines, 422,938 submitted" }, { "label": "Reshiram", "value": 177090, "basis": "64 lines, 290,289 submitted" }, { "label": "Rayquaza", "value": 170190, "basis": "102 lines, 314,368 submitted" }, { "label": "Zapdos", "value": 161386, "basis": "67 lines, 336,959 submitted" } ] }, { "title": "English registry only, same twelve Pokemon", "unit": null, "note": "PSA 10s on registry lines whose catalogue row is English, October 10 2026. Charizard takes first place back.", "points": [ { "label": "Charizard", "value": 675860, "basis": "109 English lines" }, { "label": "Pikachu", "value": 382706, "basis": "183 English lines" }, { "label": "Mewtwo", "value": 159346, "basis": "88 English lines" }, { "label": "Mew", "value": 140810, "basis": "50 English lines" }, { "label": "Umbreon", "value": 128248, "basis": "48 English lines" }, { "label": "Zapdos", "value": 118577, "basis": "49 English lines" }, { "label": "Rayquaza", "value": 114737, "basis": "61 English lines" }, { "label": "Venusaur", "value": 96238, "basis": "50 English lines" }, { "label": "Gengar", "value": 92158, "basis": "53 English lines" }, { "label": "Eevee", "value": 85859, "basis": "84 English lines" }, { "label": "Sylveon", "value": 65459, "basis": "40 English lines" }, { "label": "Reshiram", "value": 64259, "basis": "44 English lines" } ] }, { "title": "The twelve deepest Charizard registry lines", "unit": null, "note": "PSA 10 count per line, October 10 2026, with each line's gem rate, the share of every copy ever submitted that came back a 10.", "points": [ { "label": "Mega Charizard X ex · MEGA Dream ex 223 (JP)", "value": 72601, "basis": "91.1% gem rate, 79,671 submitted" }, { "label": "Mega Charizard X ex · MEP promo 023", "value": 56254, "basis": "48.2% gem rate, 116,668 submitted" }, { "label": "Mega Charizard X ex · Inferno X 110/080 (JP)", "value": 54787, "basis": "86.8% gem rate, 63,149 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard V · SWSH promo SWSH050", "value": 51238, "basis": "56.3% gem rate, 91,088 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard VSTAR · VSTAR Universe 212 (JP)", "value": 39811, "basis": "86.5% gem rate, 46,001 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard ex · Japanese 151 201 (JP)", "value": 38611, "basis": "84.2% gem rate, 45,880 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard VMAX · Shining Fates SV107", "value": 36801, "basis": "74.6% gem rate, 49,308 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard · Celebrations CC002", "value": 36364, "basis": "58.9% gem rate, 61,722 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard · 25th Anniversary promo (JP)", "value": 34342, "basis": "90.7% gem rate, 37,854 submitted" }, { "label": "Mega Charizard X ex · Phantasmal Flames 125", "value": 32862, "basis": "59.7% gem rate, 55,070 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard ex · 151 199", "value": 28756, "basis": "27.2% gem rate, 105,571 submitted" }, { "label": "Charizard VMAX · Shiny Star V 308/190 (JP)", "value": 27018, "basis": "91.0% gem rate, 29,691 submitted" } ] }, { "title": "PSA 10 median sale as a multiple of the ungraded price", "unit": "x", "note": "Median multiple per band, English Charizard lines whose PSA 10 median rests on five or more recorded sales. Listing prices read October 10 2026. Each sale median is that line's latest graded reading, which is October 10 for all but five of the 80 scoring lines, and the methodology names those five.", "points": [ { "label": "Under 500 PSA 10s", "value": 39.9, "basis": "10 of 35 lines scoreable, range 10.0x to 61.7x" }, { "label": "500 to 4,999", "value": 11.8, "basis": "34 of 38 lines, range 2.6x to 53.5x" }, { "label": "5,000 to 19,999", "value": 8.9, "basis": "all 27 lines, range 1.7x to 27.5x" }, { "label": "20,000 and up", "value": 4, "basis": "all 9 lines, range 1.5x to 7.9x" } ] }, { "title": "And the same bands, by how often the card grades a 10", "unit": "%", "note": "Median gem rate per band, all 109 English Charizard lines, so no line is dropped for want of a sale record. The scale is fixed at 100 percent because that is the real ceiling.", "points": [ { "label": "Under 500 PSA 10s", "value": 4.8, "basis": "35 lines, median 176 tens, 279,274 submissions in total" }, { "label": "500 to 4,999", "value": 34, "basis": "38 lines, 326,184 submissions" }, { "label": "5,000 to 19,999", "value": 44.9, "basis": "27 lines, 745,489 submissions" }, { "label": "20,000 and up", "value": 58.9, "basis": "9 lines, 580,047 submissions" } ] } ], "sections": [ "A PSA 10 Charizard is one of 1.27 million", "Eighteen printings hold half the million", "The number goes up by about 1,193 a day", "Two different reasons a Charizard line is thin", "What a slab adds depends on how many already exist" ], "method": [ "Population. Our population_snapshots table, read on October 10, 2026: 125,766 rows over 24,506 PSA registry lines and 68 snapshot days from August 2 to October 10, 2026. The registry cron keeps polling through the day, so a later pull shows slightly larger counts than these; every figure here is the 125,766-row read. For each registry line we sort its rows by day descending in memory and take the first, which avoids the stale-column trap of pairing MAX(day) with ungrouped columns. On 939 lines the latest row carries a PSA 10 count of 0 because the provider omitted the field, so we borrow the count from the most recent row that carries one and keep the newer submission total; 3,697 lines carry no count on any row and are left at zero, and that zero marks a missing reading; the registry behind it may be any size. We then drop 179 lines where graded_snapshots.sample_size, a legacy lifetime tally of the PSA 10 sold listings we have seen for that product id, exceeds the recorded PSA 10 population; more PSA 10 listings than PSA 10s in existence means the product id points at the wrong card, so that column earns its keep here as a mapping detector and nowhere else in this piece. Dropping on the all-window sale count instead would cut 111 lines, and on the recent-window count 71. We also drop the 72 lines that are exact signature duplicates, meaning two or more lines sharing an identical submission total, PSA 10 count and PSA 9 count with 200 or more submissions, keeping one of each of the 64 groups. That leaves 24,255 cleaned lines holding 27,030,451 lifetime submissions and 13,594,773 PSA 10s, a 50.3 percent blended gem rate. We did not apply the near-match dedupe rule written for provider collisions within a single card name, because run across the whole registry it merges genuinely different cards; applied only to the 176 Charizard lines, grouped on a folded card name and matching within 1 percent on submissions and 1.5 percent on PSA 10s, it removes none of them, so the headline is identical under either rule. Catalogue join: registry lines key on the TCGplayer product id, matching cards.tcg_id; 23,078 lines match a catalogue row and 1,177 do not and are excluded from every per-Pokemon figure, taking 312,998 PSA 10s with them. 270 of the matched product ids are claimed by more than one catalogue row; none of those pairs mixes languages, so the lower catalogue id breaks the tie. Where a Japanese line is tiled or named in English here, the tile links the English-named catalogue row sharing that same product id, which is why a card page title can differ from the Japanese set name on the chart. Naming. We seed the 1,025 species names in our pokemon_indices table and match each against both the catalogue name and the stored alternate name, folded by stripping diacritics and apostrophes, mapping the gender signs to word tokens, and reducing everything else to spaces, then require the species to appear as a whole token sequence. Both halves are load-bearing: matching the catalogue name alone returns 970,463 Charizard PSA 10s, 302,460 short of the full 1,272,923, because several Japanese printings are stored under their Japanese name. Under this fold 3,401 matched lines name no Pokemon at all, nearly all Trainer cards, and they hold 1,048,049 PSA 10s outside every species total; a different folding rule moves that line count by a handful either way, and no Charizard figure depends on it. 257 lines name two or more Pokemon and count toward each, which adds 614,798 PSA 10s to the sum of all species totals. The token match also catches Trainer cards named after a Pokemon, so we read all 177 Charizard matches by hand and removed one, [Charizard Spirit Link](/card/xy12-75) from [Evolutions](/set/evolutions), a Trainer card holding 170 PSA 10s; the 176-line, 1,272,923 total is after that removal. We did not hand-check the other species, so their counts still include any such Trainer lines, which is a known difference between the Charizard bar and its neighbours. Flow. Per line we take the full PSA 10 series and first drop the readings where the provider omitted the count, because a 0 in the middle of a series reads as a 100 percent collapse and would void the line; we then require a span of at least 3 days and divide the change by the span, dropping any line whose largest single step between consecutive readings exceeds 25 percent of the prior reading, which removes provider remaps. Without the zero-drop clause that same rule keeps only 138 lines and reports 990 a day. 164 of the 176 Charizard lines qualify, so the 1,193 a day is a floor; the 12 excluded lines hold 12,469 PSA 10s. The figure is the rate these nine weeks recorded, which makes it a measurement of the past. Prices. Ungraded prices are the most recent daily market price per product in our price_history table, dated October 10, 2026, and they are asking prices. Every PSA 10 figure here is a completed-sale median, the recent-window median from the latest row per line in our graded_snapshots table, printed with the number of recorded sales behind it and the width of that window, which opens at 90 days and widens to 180 or 365 on a line with thin sales. No sale count printed in this piece comes from sample_size, the same legacy column used above as a mapping detector: it dates from before graded figures became dated objects on 2026-09-24 and exceeds the all-window sale count on 81 of the 91 English Charizard lines where both exist, so it cannot be the number of sales behind the median beside it. A line is scored only when its median rests on five or more sales inside its stated window. Of the 109 English lines, 92 carry a PSA 10 row at all and 80 clear that bar. The multiple divides the sale median by the listing price, which mixes two different kinds of number, and on the four scoring lines priced off a wider window it also sets a long median against a one-day listing price: Base Set 4 at 365 days, and [SM promo SM226](/card/smp-SM226), [Flashfire 108](/card/xy2-108) and [Unbroken Bonds 194](/card/sm10-194) at 180. Five of the 80 scoring lines were last read before October 10: SM promo SM226 on September 27, [Hidden Fates 9](/card/sm115-9) on October 6, [XY promo XY121](/card/xyp-XY121) on October 7, and [Hidden Fates SV49](/card/sma-SV49) and [SM promo SM201](/card/smp-SM201) on October 9. Three of those five are printed in the thin-end table and the other two feed the 5,000 to 19,999 band median. Where a PSA 10 median is missing, no qualifying sale landed in our window; that means nobody listed and sold one where we can see it, and never that the card has no value. Twenty-five of the 35 lines under 500 PSA 10s carry no median we would print, so the thin-end premium is the median of the 10 that clear the bar, and it is the thinnest-sourced figure in this piece. Those 25 absences are a fact about supply in their own right, so we print the hole. Coverage. Measured against every registry line we hold before cleaning, we cover 20,477 of the 21,449 English printings in our catalogue that carry a product id, 95.5 percent, and 2,770 of 29,055 Japanese ones, 9.5 percent, so the Japanese total here understates Japan by an unknown amount and the English and Japanese figures should not be read against each other as supplies. The gem-rate gap between the two languages, 35.0 percent English against 75.4 percent Japanese on Charizard lines, is the same gap our Hard to Gem study measured across 17,730 cards, 73 percent Japanese against 36 percent English, and reflects a mix of eras and print quality, which is all we claim for it. Nothing here is financial advice." ], "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file." }