{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/the-7500-card-that-never-trades",
  "slug": "the-7500-card-that-never-trades",
  "title": "The $7,500 Card That Never Trades: Crystal Kingdra and the Illusion of the Trophy Price",
  "summary": "Aquapolis Crystal Kingdra in PSA 10 carries a $7,544 median built on seven lifetime verified sales, and in our entire measurement window it recorded zero. It is one of 53 high-value slabs in our ledger that simply do not trade. Here is what a price means when the market never opens.",
  "section": "Investment research",
  "published": "2026-08-28",
  "readMinutes": 5,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Two kinds of $4,000-plus, same hobby",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "PSA 10 median",
        "Lifetime sales",
        "Window sales"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Crystal Kingdra, Aquapolis](/card/ecard2-148)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$7,544",
          "Lifetime sales": "7",
          "Window sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Umbreon VMAX, Evolving Skies](/card/swsh7-215)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$4,300",
          "Lifetime sales": "354",
          "Window sales": "36.8 per week"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "A median of seven is a story, not a market"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Median and sample from moonstone's verified eBay sold ledger for PSA 10 Crystal Kingdra (Aquapolis H19 lineage; catalog id ecard2-148), window-sales from graded-snapshot sample deltas. The window is the four readings this card and the Umbreon carry, July 21 to August 10, 2026; neither line was refreshed again before this piece went out on August 28, so the window ends where the tape ends, not on the publication date. The frozen-tier census (53 pairs over $300, zero window sales) is from the [Liquidity Ledger](/articles/the-liquidity-ledger), whose cohort skews toward tracked chase cards. Not 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."
}