{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/vintage-japanese-pokemon-card-prices",
  "slug": "vintage-japanese-pokemon-card-prices",
  "title": "Vintage Japanese Pokemon Card Prices, Set by Set",
  "summary": "The Japanese originals of the Wizards-era sets, priced. Expansion Pack asks $2,190.76 against Base Set's $2,217.56, and by Skyridge the Japanese side is 0.287.",
  "section": "Quant research",
  "published": "2026-09-23",
  "readMinutes": 10,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "0.988",
      "measures": "Japanese Expansion Pack over English Base Set",
      "basis": "$2,190.76 against $2,217.56, both summed asks"
    },
    {
      "value": "0.287",
      "measures": "the same ratio for Skyridge, pooled",
      "basis": "$5,924.57 of Japanese original against $20,620.14"
    },
    {
      "value": "$9,531.58",
      "measures": "Pokemon VS, the dearest set with no English twin",
      "basis": "152 cards, never printed in English"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Each Wizards-era English set against its Japanese original, 2026-09-23",
      "columns": [
        "English set",
        "Released",
        "English cards",
        "English ask",
        "Japanese original",
        "Japanese cards",
        "Japanese ask",
        "JP/EN",
        "Pooled JP/EN"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "English set": "[Base Set](/set/base%20set)",
          "Released": "1999-01-09",
          "English cards": "102",
          "English ask": "$2,217.56",
          "Japanese original": "Expansion Pack",
          "Japanese cards": "102",
          "Japanese ask": "$2,190.76",
          "JP/EN": "0.988",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "1.774"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Jungle](/set/jungle)",
          "Released": "1999-06-16",
          "English cards": "64",
          "English ask": "$1,094.28",
          "Japanese original": "Pokemon Jungle",
          "Japanese cards": "48",
          "Japanese ask": "$520.51",
          "JP/EN": "0.476",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.476"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Fossil](/set/fossil)",
          "Released": "1999-10-10",
          "English cards": "62",
          "English ask": "$1,184.07",
          "Japanese original": "Mystery of the Fossils",
          "Japanese cards": "48",
          "Japanese ask": "$861.24",
          "JP/EN": "0.727",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.727"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Team Rocket](/set/team%20rocket)",
          "Released": "2000-04-24",
          "English cards": "83",
          "English ask": "$1,942.42",
          "Japanese original": "Rocket Gang",
          "Japanese cards": "65",
          "Japanese ask": "$953.39",
          "JP/EN": "0.491",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.491"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Gym Heroes](/set/gym%20heroes)",
          "Released": "2000-10-14",
          "English cards": "132",
          "English ask": "$2,008.41",
          "Japanese original": "City Gym Decks",
          "Japanese cards": "124",
          "Japanese ask": "$1,165.31",
          "JP/EN": "0.580",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.955"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Gym Challenge](/set/gym%20challenge)",
          "Released": "2000-10-16",
          "English cards": "132",
          "English ask": "$3,115.04",
          "Japanese original": "Challenge from the Darkness",
          "Japanese cards": "98",
          "Japanese ask": "$2,081.19",
          "JP/EN": "0.668",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.668"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Neo Genesis](/set/neo%20genesis)",
          "Released": "2000-12-16",
          "English cards": "111",
          "English ask": "$2,081.52",
          "Japanese original": "Gold, Silver, to a New World...",
          "Japanese cards": "96",
          "Japanese ask": "$819.73",
          "JP/EN": "0.394",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.394"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Neo Discovery](/set/neo%20discovery)",
          "Released": "2001-06-01",
          "English cards": "75",
          "English ask": "$2,357.50",
          "Japanese original": "Crossing the Ruins...",
          "Japanese cards": "57",
          "Japanese ask": "$1,215.97",
          "JP/EN": "0.516",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.516"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Southern Islands](/set/southern%20islands)",
          "Released": "2001-07-31",
          "English cards": "18",
          "English ask": "$2,134.50",
          "Japanese original": "Southern Island",
          "Japanese cards": "18",
          "Japanese ask": "$722.24",
          "JP/EN": "0.338",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.338"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Neo Revelation](/set/neo%20revelation)",
          "Released": "2001-09-21",
          "English cards": "66",
          "English ask": "$3,339.61",
          "Japanese original": "Awakening Legends",
          "Japanese cards": "56",
          "Japanese ask": "$1,337.47",
          "JP/EN": "0.400",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.400"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Neo Destiny](/set/neo%20destiny)",
          "Released": "2002-02-28",
          "English cards": "113",
          "English ask": "$10,269.47",
          "Japanese original": "Darkness, and to Light...",
          "Japanese cards": "108",
          "Japanese ask": "$2,906.95",
          "JP/EN": "0.283",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.283"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Expedition Base Set](/research/set-screen/expedition%20base%20set)",
          "Released": "2002-09-15",
          "English cards": "165",
          "English ask": "$9,857.67",
          "Japanese original": "Base Expansion Pack",
          "Japanese cards": "131",
          "Japanese ask": "$4,823.44",
          "JP/EN": "0.489",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.562"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Aquapolis](/set/aquapolis)",
          "Released": "2003-01-15",
          "English cards": "186",
          "English ask": "$17,517.07",
          "Japanese original": "The Town on No Map",
          "Japanese cards": "92",
          "Japanese ask": "$3,659.80",
          "JP/EN": "0.209",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.311"
        },
        {
          "English set": "[Skyridge](/set/skyridge)",
          "Released": "2003-05-12",
          "English cards": "182",
          "English ask": "$20,620.14",
          "Japanese original": "Mysterious Mountains",
          "Japanese cards": "91",
          "Japanese ask": "$2,641.30",
          "JP/EN": "0.128",
          "Pooled JP/EN": "0.287"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "All 28 vintage Japanese sets with a priced card, 2026-09-23",
      "columns": [
        "Japanese set",
        "How it entered",
        "Cards",
        "Priced",
        "Summed ask",
        "Median card",
        "Dearest card"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Japanese set": "Pokemon VS",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "152",
          "Priced": "150",
          "Summed ask": "$9,531.58",
          "Median card": "$31.90",
          "Dearest card": "[Rocket's Entei](/card/jat-631897) $499.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Base Expansion Pack",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "131",
          "Priced": "119",
          "Summed ask": "$4,823.44",
          "Median card": "$15.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Mew - 119/128](/card/jat-576024) $490.88"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "The Town on No Map",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "92",
          "Priced": "76",
          "Summed ask": "$3,659.80",
          "Median card": "$19.01",
          "Dearest card": "[Espeon - 046/092](/card/jat-576273) $399.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Vending Machine cards Series 3 (Green)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "52",
          "Priced": "52",
          "Summed ask": "$3,372.24",
          "Median card": "$38.75",
          "Dearest card": "[Ooyama's Pikachu](/card/jat-617543) $999.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Split Earth",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "91",
          "Priced": "74",
          "Summed ask": "$3,283.27",
          "Median card": "$20.32",
          "Dearest card": "[Alakazam - 043/088](/card/jat-576166) $299.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Darkness, and to Light...",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "108",
          "Priced": "108",
          "Summed ask": "$2,906.95",
          "Median card": "$7.76",
          "Dearest card": "[Shining Noctowl](/card/jat-575528) $500.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Mysterious Mountains",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "91",
          "Priced": "66",
          "Summed ask": "$2,641.30",
          "Median card": "$20.27",
          "Dearest card": "[Magneton - 038/088](/card/jat-576110) $199.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Vending Machine cards Series 1 (Blue)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "36",
          "Priced": "36",
          "Summed ask": "$2,276.24",
          "Median card": "$33.60",
          "Dearest card": "[Snorlax](/card/jat-617470) $411.33"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Expansion Pack",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "102",
          "Priced": "102",
          "Summed ask": "$2,190.76",
          "Median card": "$2.71",
          "Dearest card": "[Charizard](/card/jat-575604) $800.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Challenge from the Darkness",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "98",
          "Priced": "98",
          "Summed ask": "$2,081.19",
          "Median card": "$2.73",
          "Dearest card": "[Sabrina's Gengar](/card/jat-575343) $800.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Wind from the Sea",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "90",
          "Priced": "76",
          "Summed ask": "$1,782.15",
          "Median card": "$12.14",
          "Dearest card": "[Ninetales - 023/087](/card/jat-576392) $160.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Vending Machine cards Series 2 (Red)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "36",
          "Priced": "36",
          "Summed ask": "$1,770.18",
          "Median card": "$34.97",
          "Dearest card": "[Kabuto](/card/jat-617505) $171.49"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Expansion Pack (No Rarity)",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "59",
          "Priced": "59",
          "Summed ask": "$1,742.36",
          "Median card": "$10.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Clefairy](/card/jat-577032) $400.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Awakening Legends",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "56",
          "Priced": "56",
          "Summed ask": "$1,337.47",
          "Median card": "$3.82",
          "Dearest card": "[Shining Magikarp](/card/jat-575242) $300.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Crossing the Ruins...",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "57",
          "Priced": "57",
          "Summed ask": "$1,215.97",
          "Median card": "$3.16",
          "Dearest card": "[Umbreon](/card/jat-575428) $245.25"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "City Gym Decks",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "124",
          "Priced": "124",
          "Summed ask": "$1,165.31",
          "Median card": "$4.37",
          "Dearest card": "[Sabrina's Gengar](/card/jat-614839) $160.96"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Intro Pack (Bulbasaur)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "41",
          "Priced": "32",
          "Summed ask": "$1,137.05",
          "Median card": "$9.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Venusaur](/card/jat-614629) $178.59"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Intro Pack (Squirtle)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "41",
          "Priced": "31",
          "Summed ask": "$1,111.55",
          "Median card": "$10.00",
          "Dearest card": "[Blastoise](/card/jat-614651) $250.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Pokemon Web",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "47",
          "Priced": "26",
          "Summed ask": "$1,077.85",
          "Median card": "$49.95",
          "Dearest card": "[Ninetales](/card/jat-613674) $84.95"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Rocket Gang",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "65",
          "Priced": "65",
          "Summed ask": "$953.39",
          "Median card": "$2.38",
          "Dearest card": "[Dark Charizard](/card/jat-575744) $208.56"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Mystery of the Fossils",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "48",
          "Priced": "48",
          "Summed ask": "$861.24",
          "Median card": "$1.89",
          "Dearest card": "[Gengar](/card/jat-575683) $240.52"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Gold, Silver, to a New World...",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "96",
          "Priced": "96",
          "Summed ask": "$819.73",
          "Median card": "$2.02",
          "Dearest card": "[Lugia](/card/jat-575819) $251.83"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Leaders' Stadium",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "96",
          "Priced": "96",
          "Summed ask": "$753.26",
          "Median card": "$3.07",
          "Dearest card": "[Misty's Tears](/card/jat-576829) $119.73"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Southern Island",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "18",
          "Priced": "18",
          "Summed ask": "$722.24",
          "Median card": "$28.30",
          "Dearest card": "[Mew](/card/jat-607942) $178.71"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Intro Pack Neo (Chikorita)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "35",
          "Priced": "20",
          "Summed ask": "$720.59",
          "Median card": "$29.50",
          "Dearest card": "[Quilava](/card/jat-614096) $100.00"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Pokemon-e Starter Deck",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "29",
          "Priced": "20",
          "Summed ask": "$720.16",
          "Median card": "$26.40",
          "Dearest card": "[Charizard](/card/jat-614509) $139.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Intro Pack Neo (Totodile)",
          "How it entered": "hand list",
          "Cards": "38",
          "Priced": "17",
          "Summed ask": "$622.85",
          "Median card": "$22.99",
          "Dearest card": "[Totodile - 16](/card/jat-614140) $99.99"
        },
        {
          "Japanese set": "Pokemon Jungle",
          "How it entered": "crosswalk",
          "Cards": "48",
          "Priced": "48",
          "Summed ask": "$520.51",
          "Median card": "$2.12",
          "Dearest card": "[Snorlax](/card/jat-576647) $81.59"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The seventeen vintage sets our catalog holds twice, 2026-09-23",
      "columns": [
        "Marketplace set name (priced)",
        "Cards",
        "Catalog set name (unpriced)",
        "Rows",
        "Set code in the id",
        "Shared Latin card names"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Pokemon VS",
          "Cards": "152",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "ポケモンカード★VS",
          "Rows": "143",
          "Set code in the id": "VS1",
          "Shared Latin card names": "9"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Base Expansion Pack",
          "Cards": "131",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "基本拡張パック",
          "Rows": "128",
          "Set code in the id": "E1",
          "Shared Latin card names": "19"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Darkness, and to Light...",
          "Cards": "108",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "闇、そして光へ...",
          "Rows": "113",
          "Set code in the id": "neo4",
          "Shared Latin card names": "15"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Expansion Pack",
          "Cards": "102",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "拡張パック",
          "Rows": "102",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG1",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Challenge from the Darkness",
          "Cards": "98",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "闇からの挑戦",
          "Rows": "98",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG6",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Gold, Silver, to a New World...",
          "Cards": "96",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "金、銀、新世界へ...",
          "Rows": "96",
          "Set code in the id": "neo1",
          "Shared Latin card names": "23"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Leaders' Stadium",
          "Cards": "96",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "リーダーズスタジアム",
          "Rows": "96",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG5",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "The Town on No Map",
          "Cards": "92",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "地図にない町",
          "Rows": "92",
          "Set code in the id": "E2",
          "Shared Latin card names": "20"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Split Earth",
          "Cards": "91",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "裂けた大地",
          "Rows": "91",
          "Set code in the id": "E4",
          "Shared Latin card names": "17"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Mysterious Mountains",
          "Cards": "91",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "神秘なる山",
          "Rows": "91",
          "Set code in the id": "E5",
          "Shared Latin card names": "19"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Wind from the Sea",
          "Cards": "90",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "海からの風",
          "Rows": "90",
          "Set code in the id": "E3",
          "Shared Latin card names": "20"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Rocket Gang",
          "Cards": "65",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "ロケット団",
          "Rows": "65",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG4",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Crossing the Ruins...",
          "Cards": "57",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "遺跡をこえて...",
          "Rows": "57",
          "Set code in the id": "neo2",
          "Shared Latin card names": "19"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Awakening Legends",
          "Cards": "56",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "めざめる伝説",
          "Rows": "57",
          "Set code in the id": "neo3",
          "Shared Latin card names": "15"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Pokemon Jungle",
          "Cards": "48",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "ポケモンジャングル",
          "Rows": "48",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG2",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Mystery of the Fossils",
          "Cards": "48",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "化石の秘密",
          "Rows": "48",
          "Set code in the id": "PMCG3",
          "Shared Latin card names": "0"
        },
        {
          "Marketplace set name (priced)": "Pokemon Web",
          "Cards": "47",
          "Catalog set name (unpriced)": "ポケモンカード★web",
          "Rows": "47",
          "Set code in the id": "web1",
          "Shared Latin card names": "12"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The twelve dearest vintage Japanese cards by ask, with their sold PSA 10 median",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "Set",
        "Ask",
        "PSA 10 sold median",
        "Sales"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Ooyama's Pikachu](/card/jat-617543)",
          "Set": "Vending Machine cards Series 3 (Green)",
          "Ask": "$999.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$7,203.49",
          "Sales": "63"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Sabrina's Gengar](/card/jat-575343)",
          "Set": "Challenge from the Darkness",
          "Ask": "$800.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$7,316.48",
          "Sales": "26"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Charizard](/card/jat-575604)",
          "Set": "Expansion Pack",
          "Ask": "$800.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$3,950.00",
          "Sales": "20"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Shining Noctowl](/card/jat-575528)",
          "Set": "Darkness, and to Light...",
          "Ask": "$500.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Rocket's Entei](/card/jat-631897)",
          "Set": "Pokemon VS",
          "Ask": "$499.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Lance's Charizard](/card/jat-631899)",
          "Set": "Pokemon VS",
          "Ask": "$495.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Mew - 119/128](/card/jat-576024)",
          "Set": "Base Expansion Pack",
          "Ask": "$490.88",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Morty's Gengar](/card/jat-622613)",
          "Set": "Pokemon VS",
          "Ask": "$450.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Snorlax](/card/jat-617470)",
          "Set": "Vending Machine cards Series 1 (Blue)",
          "Ask": "$411.33",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$7,500.00",
          "Sales": "10"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Shining Tyranitar](/card/jat-575531)",
          "Set": "Darkness, and to Light...",
          "Ask": "$400.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Clefairy](/card/jat-577032)",
          "Set": "Expansion Pack (No Rarity)",
          "Ask": "$400.00",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "no recorded sale",
          "Sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Espeon - 046/092](/card/jat-576273)",
          "Set": "The Town on No Map",
          "Ask": "$399.99",
          "PSA 10 sold median": "$2,995.00",
          "Sales": "22"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "How a Japanese set was dated, given that we hold no Japanese release dates",
    "Every set in the study, including the nine with no English twin",
    "The same set, twice, under two names, one of them unpriced",
    "The grading side",
    "What this study cannot show",
    "What would overturn it"
  ],
  "method": [
    "POPULATION, in two halves, both printed above. MECHANICAL: for every Japanese set name in the catalog we computed the English set whose checklist it overlaps most, on card names folded for case, accents, apostrophes, the gender signs, bracketed suffixes and a trailing product number; a Japanese set enters when that best match is one of the eighteen English sets released 1999-01-09 to 2003-05-12 (Base Set, Jungle, Fossil, Base Set 2, Team Rocket, Gym Heroes, Gym Challenge, Neo Genesis, Neo Discovery, Southern Islands, Neo Revelation, Neo Destiny, Legendary Collection, Expedition Base Set, Aquapolis, Skyridge, Wizards Black Star Promos and Best of game), at 60% or more of the Japanese set's own checklist and on at least ten distinct folded names. 27 sets qualify after wave exclusions. RECONCILIATION: 27 crosswalk sets plus 9 hand-list sets is 36 set names, but 8 of the 27 are Japanese-language duplicate rows of the kind described above, which hold no priced product at all, so the census table carries 28 sets. HAND LIST: nine Japanese sets with no English counterpart were added by hand and are named in the census table. No release date is claimed for them; our data holds none for any Japanese set, and the era assignment is ours rather than a recorded field. EXCLUDED, matched but on fewer than ten names, 9 sets, 59 cards, $2,941.55: How I Became a Pokemon Card, Neo Premium File 1, 2 and 3, Quick Starter Gift Set (Green Deck), World Hobby Fair, Pokemon Card Fan Club, sp2: VMAX Special Set and Champion Road. EXCLUDED BY WAVE BOUNDARY: McDonald's Pokémon-e Minimum Pack, 24 cards and $2,166.42, which belongs to [McDonald's Pokemon cards value](/articles/mcdonalds-pokemon-cards-value); P Promotional cards and Japanese CD Promo, 51 cards and $4,458.14, which belong to [Japanese promo card prices](/articles/japanese-promo-card-prices). Japanese CD Promo also matched on fewer than ten names; it is counted once, under the wave boundary, and is not in the 59 above. The census is taken over the MARKETPLACE namespace, the 1,977 products whose catalog id begins `jat-`. The Japanese-language second copies are reported separately rather than summed: 1,462 rows across seventeen sets, none of which has ever carried a price on any day of the tape. Those seventeen pairs were matched on the release code inside the catalog id (`ja-neo1-001` against the marketplace Gold, Silver, to a New World..., and so on), NOT on card names: a folded-name matcher of the kind used for the crosswalk finds nine of the seventeen, because six pairs share no Latin card name at all. Only 8 of the seventeen enter the crosswalk above, which is why 36 set names reconcile to a 28-row census. EXCLUDED BY THE 60% GATE, and worth naming because they are era-adjacent rather than promo or modern: Theater Limited VS Pack (18 rows, $964.63), Movie Commemoration VS Pack: Sky-Splitting Deoxys (20 rows, $769.82), Master Kit (Side Deck) (10 rows, $315.00) and Melee! Pokemon Scramble (18 rows, $121.28); 66 rows and $2,170.73 in total, none above 40% overlap with its best English match. 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. English release dates come from `api_cache` key `report:spread:setsmeta`, under the provider's own spelling where it differs from the catalog's (Expedition for Expedition Base Set). BOTH LEGS OF THE TWIN TABLE count every catalog row in the set and sum the ask over the rows carrying one on day 20719, so a ratio is a sum of what we price on each side, not of what the set holds. On the English side six rows of the fourteen sets have no ask: base1-8 Machamp, ecard2-H28 Tyranitar, and ecard3-H09, H10, H20 and H30 in Skyridge, so Base Set is summed over 101 rows of 102, Aquapolis over 185 of 186 and Skyridge over 178 of 182. On the Japanese side the gap is far larger and is printed per set in the census table: Mysterious Mountains prices 66 of 91 rows and Pokemon Web 26 of 47. 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: 622 of the 1,806 priced cards carry a PSA 10 or PSA 9 sold median at the two-sale bar, and 386 of those also carry a registry row, so the test is evaluable on 386 and not evaluable on 236, which hold a sold median and no registry line at all; the 11 removed and the 26 a bar of 1 would remove are both counted out of 386, never out of 622. Eleven cards fail it here and are removed before any graded figure is computed: over the bar, jat-575224 at 11.00 sales per copy, jat-575234 at 2.25, jat-576025 at 5.50, jat-576120 at 2.50, jat-614510 at 5.50, jat-575724 at 8.33, jat-575747 at 2.75 and jat-576235 at 2.25; and with no recorded copies at the graded grade, jat-614743, jat-575609 and jat-575754. That leaves a graded population of 1,795 against 1,806 priced cards. A stricter bar of 1 would have removed 26, and the 15 it would add all sit between 1.14 and 2.00 sales per copy, including jat-614830 Sabrina at 1.53. 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. The English sets in the twin table all resolve at /set/ except Expedition Base Set, which 404s there and is linked to its set screen; its own study is [Expedition Base Set card prices](/articles/expedition-base-set-card-prices). The English era that follows this window is covered by [EX era Pokemon cards value](/articles/ex-era-pokemon-cards-value), [Unseen Forces card prices](/articles/unseen-forces-card-prices) and [Team Rocket Returns card prices](/articles/team-rocket-returns-card-prices); the four Neo sets in the twin table are ranked against each other in [which Neo set holds its value](/articles/which-neo-set-holds-its-value). Related: [the same card, two oceans apart](/articles/same-card-two-oceans), [the flatter ladder](/articles/the-flatter-ladder), [the Japanese price flip](/articles/the-japanese-price-flip), [Japanese vs English Pokemon cards](/articles/japanese-vs-english-pokemon-cards), [Japanese slabs](/articles/japanese-slabs), and the companion studies [Japanese promo card prices](/articles/japanese-promo-card-prices) and [Japanese 151 vs English 151](/articles/japanese-151-vs-english-151)."
  ],
  "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."
}