{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/japanese-promo-card-prices",
  "slug": "japanese-promo-card-prices",
  "title": "Japanese Promo Card Prices: 21 Families Counted",
  "summary": "The 21 Japanese promo families hold 2,094 cards. Only 1,244 carry a live ask, they total $72,051.63, the median is $17.10, and 21 of them ask under a dollar.",
  "section": "Quant research",
  "published": "2026-09-23",
  "readMinutes": 9,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "$72,051.63",
      "measures": "summed ask across 1,244 priced promos",
      "basis": "2,094 cards in the 21 families, 850 with no price on the tape"
    },
    {
      "value": "$17.10",
      "measures": "the median priced Japanese promo",
      "basis": "against $0.45 for the median English Sun & Moon era card"
    },
    {
      "value": "21",
      "measures": "priced promos asking under a dollar",
      "basis": "1.7% of the block, against 60.4% of the Sun & Moon era"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "The 21 Japanese promo families, 2026-09-23, asks on the priced cards only",
      "columns": [
        "Family",
        "Cards",
        "Priced",
        "Summed ask",
        "Median priced card",
        "Dearest card",
        "$100 and up",
        "Share of block"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Family": "SM-P: Sun & Moon Promos",
          "Cards": "240",
          "Priced": "222",
          "Summed ask": "$26,901.90",
          "Median priced card": "$20.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Pretend Team Skull Pikachu](/card/jat-598090) $3,499.99",
          "$100 and up": "38",
          "Share of block": "37.3%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "XY-P: XY Promos",
          "Cards": "298",
          "Priced": "148",
          "Summed ask": "$7,719.86",
          "Median priced card": "$20.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Rayquaza - 232/XY-P](/card/jat-602136) $1,299.99",
          "$100 and up": "14",
          "Share of block": "10.7%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "S-P: Sword & Shield Promos",
          "Cards": "340",
          "Priced": "181",
          "Summed ask": "$4,907.26",
          "Median priced card": "$9.40",
          "Dearest card": "[Swallowed Up Pikachu - 105/S-P](/card/jat-597306) $599.99",
          "$100 and up": "10",
          "Share of block": "6.8%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "CoroCoro Promotional Cards",
          "Cards": "44",
          "Priced": "44",
          "Summed ask": "$4,068.12",
          "Median priced card": "$40.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Shining Mew](/card/jat-617261) $824.99",
          "$100 and up": "6",
          "Share of block": "5.6%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "PCG-P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "155",
          "Priced": "113",
          "Summed ask": "$3,626.60",
          "Median priced card": "$15.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Mew - 085/PCG-P](/card/jat-613453) $229.99",
          "$100 and up": "9",
          "Share of block": "5.0%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "SV-P Promotional Cards",
          "Cards": "220",
          "Priced": "125",
          "Summed ask": "$3,488.78",
          "Median priced card": "$6.85",
          "Dearest card": "[Victini - 288/SV-P](/card/jat-643120) $490.00",
          "$100 and up": "8",
          "Share of block": "4.8%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "47",
          "Priced": "26",
          "Summed ask": "$3,178.20",
          "Median priced card": "$60.65",
          "Dearest card": "[Pikachu - 044/P](/card/jat-613724) $599.00",
          "$100 and up": "9",
          "Share of block": "4.4%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "Unnumbered Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "37",
          "Priced": "37",
          "Summed ask": "$2,924.61",
          "Median priced card": "$35.95",
          "Dearest card": "[Machamp](/card/jat-617425) $430.00",
          "$100 and up": "8",
          "Share of block": "4.1%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "BW-P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "236",
          "Priced": "93",
          "Summed ask": "$2,483.97",
          "Median priced card": "$17.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Rayquaza - 144/BW-P](/card/jat-635236) $250.00",
          "$100 and up": "3",
          "Share of block": "3.4%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "T Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "24",
          "Priced": "13",
          "Summed ask": "$1,929.92",
          "Median priced card": "$140.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Ivysaur](/card/jat-613957) $300.00",
          "$100 and up": "9",
          "Share of block": "2.7%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "DP-P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "127",
          "Priced": "81",
          "Summed ask": "$1,782.34",
          "Median priced card": "$9.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Snorlax LV.X - 127/DP-P](/card/jat-613327) $150.00",
          "$100 and up": "5",
          "Share of block": "2.5%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "L-P: Legends Promos",
          "Cards": "79",
          "Priced": "19",
          "Summed ask": "$1,673.37",
          "Median priced card": "$50.49",
          "Dearest card": "[Kyogre](/card/jat-608610) $350.00",
          "$100 and up": "4",
          "Share of block": "2.3%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "s8a-P: Promo Card Pack 25th Anniversary Edition",
          "Cards": "25",
          "Priced": "25",
          "Summed ask": "$1,586.88",
          "Median priced card": "$24.70",
          "Dearest card": "[Charizard](/card/jat-594633) $350.00",
          "$100 and up": "4",
          "Share of block": "2.2%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "ADV-P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "63",
          "Priced": "48",
          "Summed ask": "$1,494.38",
          "Median priced card": "$19.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Brock's Mudkip - 038/ADV-P](/card/jat-613592) $119.99",
          "$100 and up": "2",
          "Share of block": "2.1%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "Japanese CD Promo",
          "Cards": "4",
          "Priced": "4",
          "Summed ask": "$1,279.94",
          "Median priced card": "$329.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Charizard](/card/jat-670191) $500.00",
          "$100 and up": "4",
          "Share of block": "1.8%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "DPt-P Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "51",
          "Priced": "17",
          "Summed ask": "$1,133.94",
          "Median priced card": "$35.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Pikachu M - 043/DPt-P](/card/jat-613236) $350.00",
          "$100 and up": "5",
          "Share of block": "1.6%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "PLAY Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "32",
          "Priced": "7",
          "Summed ask": "$1,090.96",
          "Median priced card": "$160.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Pokemon Card Fan](/card/jat-613926) $260.00",
          "$100 and up": "4",
          "Share of block": "1.5%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "M-P Promotional Cards",
          "Cards": "60",
          "Priced": "33",
          "Summed ask": "$330.61",
          "Median priced card": "$2.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Celebration Fanfare - 033/M-P](/card/jat-649589) $111.15",
          "$100 and up": "1",
          "Share of block": "0.5%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "PPP Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "7",
          "Priced": "4",
          "Summed ask": "$249.99",
          "Median priced card": "$45.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Darkrai](/card/jat-613880) $150.00",
          "$100 and up": "1",
          "Share of block": "0.3%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "Pokemon Card Information Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "3",
          "Priced": "3",
          "Summed ask": "$125.00",
          "Median priced card": "$50.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Pryce's Lapras](/card/jat-617273) $55.00",
          "$100 and up": "0",
          "Share of block": "0.2%"
        },
        {
          "Family": "J Promotional cards",
          "Cards": "2",
          "Priced": "1",
          "Summed ask": "$75.00",
          "Median priced card": "$75.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Latias and Latios (Jumbo)](/card/jat-613697) $75.00",
          "$100 and up": "0",
          "Share of block": "0.1%"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "All 1,244 priced Japanese promos by ask band, 2026-09-23",
      "columns": [
        "Ask band",
        "Cards",
        "Share of cards",
        "Summed ask",
        "Share of value"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Ask band": "Under $1",
          "Cards": "21",
          "Share of cards": "1.7%",
          "Summed ask": "$11.14",
          "Share of value": "0.0%"
        },
        {
          "Ask band": "$1 to $5",
          "Cards": "219",
          "Share of cards": "17.6%",
          "Summed ask": "$676.08",
          "Share of value": "0.9%"
        },
        {
          "Ask band": "$5 to $25",
          "Cards": "519",
          "Share of cards": "41.7%",
          "Summed ask": "$6,567.61",
          "Share of value": "9.1%"
        },
        {
          "Ask band": "$25 to $100",
          "Cards": "341",
          "Share of cards": "27.4%",
          "Summed ask": "$16,963.17",
          "Share of value": "23.5%"
        },
        {
          "Ask band": "$100 to $500",
          "Cards": "123",
          "Share of cards": "9.9%",
          "Summed ask": "$26,262.44",
          "Share of value": "36.4%"
        },
        {
          "Ask band": "$500 and up",
          "Cards": "21",
          "Share of cards": "1.7%",
          "Summed ask": "$21,571.19",
          "Share of value": "29.9%"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The ten dearest Japanese promos, with their sold PSA 10 median and registry depth",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "Family",
        "Ask",
        "PSA 10 sold median",
        "Sales",
        "PSA registry lines"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Pretend Team Skull Pikachu - 013/SM-P](/card/jat-598090)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$3,499.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$12,676.74",
          "Sales": "17",
          "PSA registry lines": "4,094"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Psyduck - 286/SM-P](/card/jat-598363)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$2,499.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$10,880.00",
          "Sales": "21",
          "PSA registry lines": "11,570"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Eevee - 287/SM-P](/card/jat-598364)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$1,700.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$5,206.25",
          "Sales": "27",
          "PSA registry lines": "11,011"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu - 061/SM-P](/card/jat-598138)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$1,500.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$3,574.50",
          "Sales": "29",
          "PSA registry lines": "3,467"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Rayquaza - 232/XY-P](/card/jat-602136)",
          "Family": "XY-P",
          "Ask": "$1,299.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$2,462.50",
          "Sales": "61",
          "PSA registry lines": "2,879"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pretend Grunt Pikachu - 014/SM-P](/card/jat-598091)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$850.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$2,710.42",
          "Sales": "37",
          "PSA registry lines": "2,902"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Poncho-wearing Eevee - 144/SM-P](/card/jat-598221)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$828.75",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$4,075.00",
          "Sales": "8",
          "PSA registry lines": "2,516"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Shining Mew](/card/jat-617261)",
          "Family": "CoroCoro",
          "Ask": "$824.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0",
          "PSA registry lines": "19,448"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Poncho-wearing Eevee - 139/SM-P](/card/jat-598216)",
          "Family": "SM-P",
          "Ask": "$803.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$3,093.22",
          "Sales": "5",
          "PSA registry lines": "1,530"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Corrected Illustrator Pikachu](/card/jat-617220)",
          "Family": "CoroCoro",
          "Ask": "$800.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0",
          "PSA registry lines": "1,662"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The eight deepest PSA registry lines in the promo block, lines rather than slabs",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "Family",
        "Registry lines",
        "Recorded PSA 10s",
        "Gem rate",
        "Ask"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu - 020/M-P](/card/jat-649586)",
          "Family": "M-P",
          "Registry lines": "332,353",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "290,960",
          "Gem rate": "87.5%",
          "Ask": "$34.45"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu - 001/SV-P](/card/jat-587758)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "95,072",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "78,423",
          "Gem rate": "82.5%",
          "Ask": "$21.26"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Detective Pikachu - 098/SV-P](/card/jat-587856)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "57,668",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "49,879",
          "Gem rate": "86.5%",
          "Ask": "$264.03"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu - 208/S-P](/card/jat-597392)",
          "Family": "S-P",
          "Registry lines": "54,941",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "41,132",
          "Gem rate": "74.9%",
          "Ask": "$154.50"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu - 120/SV-P](/card/jat-587870)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "50,432",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "39,594",
          "Gem rate": "78.5%",
          "Ask": "$12.97"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Fukuoka's Pikachu - 289/SV-P](/card/jat-658431)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "50,376",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "41,764",
          "Gem rate": "82.9%",
          "Ask": "$160.91"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Tohoku's Pikachu - 260/SV-P](/card/jat-650726)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "48,841",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "30,174",
          "Gem rate": "61.8%",
          "Ask": "$133.31"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Hiroshima's Pikachu - 261/SV-P](/card/jat-650763)",
          "Family": "SV-P",
          "Registry lines": "46,776",
          "Recorded PSA 10s": "34,566",
          "Gem rate": "73.9%",
          "Ask": "$153.09"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "The 850 cards with no price, checked before anything else",
    "The twenty-one families, whole",
    "There is no bulk tier",
    "Deep registries, thin sold tape",
    "What this study cannot show",
    "What would overturn it"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population: every `cards` row whose `set_name` is one of the 21 Japanese promo families named in the table above, 2,094 rows on 2026-09-23. Deduplicating on TCGplayer product id collapses 0 rows in this population; every row carries a `jat-` marketplace id. Prices are asks from the daily card tape `price_history` on epoch day 20719, 2026-09-23, a complete day carrying 52,378 priced products; the partial days 20704 to 20713 are not used. Population is PRODUCTS, not catalog rows: one row per TCGplayer product id where present, else the catalog id, ties broken to the lexicographically smallest catalog id. Graded figures are SOLD medians from `graded_snapshots`, latest day per card and grade, read across both the catalog-id and the product-id keyspaces and taking the fresher row, then dropping any surviving median dated before day 20695, the first day of the current daily graded tape, and quoted only where the sample is 2 or more. PSA figures are REGISTRY LINES from `population_snapshots`, latest day per key; many products share one line, so no per-set sum of them is printed. Medians are upper-middle on even samples. The set-value series `sethist2:` is not used anywhere in this study, so a /set/ page's own \"Full Set\" figure will not match these sums: that is two instruments, not an error. Unpriced test: of the 850 products with no ask on day 20719, all 850 carry a product id and only 34 have any row in the whole 25-day tape (2026-08-30 to 2026-09-23), so 816 are unpriced rather than dropped by the evaluation day. Gem rates use `gemRateIsTrustworthy()` from @cardapp/core/server, which rejects a recorded zero that the rest of the row contradicts, and are restricted to 50 or more submissions: 280 cards qualify. SHARED-KEY TEST: A recorded sold count above the registry's own count at a grade is NOT an impossibility: `graded_snapshots` counts SALES and `population_snapshots` counts graded COPIES, and a slab that resells is counted twice on one side and once on the other. What the ratio measures is recorded sales per graded copy, and only a large ratio is evidence that the graded key is pooling another product onto this card. The bar applied here is a DECLARED one, 2 recorded sales per graded copy, not a physical limit. A card is also dropped when two or more sales are recorded at a grade and the registry line records no copies at that grade, because the denominator is then unusable and our feed does not distinguish an absent grade breakdown from a real zero. WHAT THE TEST COULD BE RUN ON, because a test that cannot run is not a pass: 336 of the 1,244 priced cards carry a PSA 10 or PSA 9 sold median at the two-sale bar, and 205 of those 336 also carry a `population_snapshots` row, so the test is evaluable on 205 and not evaluable on 131, which hold a sold median and no registry line at all. None of the 205 fails at either bar. The test was run over all 1,244 priced cards before any graded figure was computed and removed none of them, so the graded population here is the full 1,244; a stricter bar of 1 sale per copy would also have removed none. The same test removes 4 cards in Sun & Moon, 8 in Diamond & Pearl and 11 in the vintage Japanese census, against 4, 16 and 26 at a bar of 1. \"No recorded graded sale\" was checked across every grade our tape carries, PSA, BGS and CGC alike, not only the two PSA grades this study reports. No PSA population absolute is summed across cards, because many products share one registry line. EXCLUSIONS BY WAVE BOUNDARY: the ten English Black Star Promo families are not in this study and are the ground of [are Black Star promos worth anything](/articles/are-black-star-promos-worth-anything); the Japanese McDonald's set is the ground of [McDonald's Pokemon cards value](/articles/mcdonalds-pokemon-cards-value); two named English promo cards have their own studies, [Mewtwo & Mew GX SM191](/articles/mewtwo-and-mew-gx-sm191-value) and [Special Delivery Charizard](/articles/special-delivery-charizard-value). No Japanese set has a working page on this site, so Japanese set names here are plain prose while their CARDS are linked normally. There is no set-value series for any Japanese set and the set screen's catalog list filters to English, so both surfaces 404. We probed rather than assumed: on 2026-09-23 we fetched /set/ and /research/set-screen/ for SM-P: Sun & Moon Promos, CoroCoro Promotional Cards, SV2a: Pokemon Card 151, Expansion Pack, Pokemon VS, Split Earth and 金、銀、新世界へ..., and read the title back on each; all 404. One spelling is worse than a 404: `/set/ポケモンカード151` and `/research/set-screen/ポケモンカード151` both return 200 and render the ENGLISH 151 set, because the slug normaliser strips non-ASCII characters and leaves the string \"151\". Neither is linked from this study. Related: [the most graded cards in Pokemon](/articles/the-most-graded-cards-in-pokemon), [hard to gem](/articles/hard-to-gem), [Japanese slabs](/articles/japanese-slabs), [cards with a price and no sale](/articles/cards-with-a-price-and-no-sale), and the companion censuses [vintage Japanese Pokemon card prices](/articles/vintage-japanese-pokemon-card-prices), [Japanese 151 vs English 151](/articles/japanese-151-vs-english-151), [Sun and Moon era card prices](/articles/sun-and-moon-era-card-prices) and [Diamond and Pearl era card prices](/articles/diamond-and-pearl-era-card-prices)."
  ],
  "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."
}