All the PSA-graded Base Set Unlimited Charizards together come to about $60.4 million on paper: 93,573 slabs, each grade multiplied by PSA’s average recorded price for that grade, on PSA figures archived March 2, 2026. Price each grade at its most recent recorded sale instead and the figure is $65.3 million; swap in 2026 Goldin results for the PSA 10, 9 and 8 rows and it climbs to roughly $88.7 million to $96.3 million.
Every one of those totals is Pokemon Pricing’s arithmetic, not a price anyone has paid or could pay. It answers a simple question collectors keep asking: if more than a hundred thousand of one Charizard have been graded, why is each one still worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, and what does the whole stack come to? The short version is that the value is spread across the middle grades, not stacked on the famous PSA 10s.
As of October 23, 2026: PSA population 93,573 (from the Internet Archive’s March 2, 2026 capture of PSA’s auction-price page, since PSA’s live report is login-only). Goldin’s October 2026 lot cites more than 105,365 in PSA’s census. Paper value of PSA slabs: $60.4 million at averages, $65.3 million at latest sales. CGC 14,977 and TAG 1,472 slabs, valued separately below.
Every PSA Unlimited Charizard, valued grade by grade
PSA’s auction-price page for the Unlimited Charizard lists, for each grade, a population, the most recent sale and an average price across the sales PSA has recorded. We multiplied population by average price, row by row. The table is the whole calculation.
| Grade | PSA population | PSA average price | Population x average (our math) | Share of total | Most recent sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 487 | $10,640.07 | $5,181,714 | 8.6% | $15,451.00 |
| PSA 9 | 8,424 | $2,066.76 | $17,410,386 | 28.8% | $1,725.00 |
| PSA 8 | 15,407 | $860.33 | $13,255,104 | 22.0% | $1,078.00 |
| PSA 7 | 15,852 | $550.87 | $8,732,391 | 14.5% | $645.00 |
| PSA 6 | 16,460 | $381.95 | $6,286,897 | 10.4% | $430.00 |
| PSA 5 | 14,673 | $300.78 | $4,413,345 | 7.3% | $322.00 |
| PSA 4 | 9,140 | $255.58 | $2,336,001 | 3.9% | $200.00 |
| PSA 3 | 5,005 | $238.12 | $1,191,791 | 2.0% | $227.50 |
| PSA 2 | 3,234 | $217.74 | $704,171 | 1.2% | $224.09 |
| PSA 1.5 | 114 | $262.00 | $29,868 | under one-tenth of a percent | $262.00 |
| PSA 1 | 3,719 | $215.21 | $800,366 | 1.3% | $225.00 |
| PSA Auth | 85 | $240.54 | $20,446 | under one-tenth of a percent | $240.54 |
| All whole grades | 92,600 | $60,362,481 |
That works out to an average of about $652 per slab. The calculation counts the 92,600 slabs on PSA’s whole-grade rows. The other 973 in the 93,573 total are mostly half grades such as PSA 8.5, which PSA counts but does not price on this page. If each half-grade slab were valued at the average of the whole grade below it (an assumption of ours, chosen to stay on the low side), they would add about $592,178: small change against the total.
Using each row’s most recent sale instead of its average gives $65,270,262 (about $65.3 million). The two methods bracket the answer from different sides. PSA’s averages reach back through years of cheaper sales; a “most recent” price is one sale and can be an outlier, as the PSA 3 row shows, where the latest sale at $227.50 sits above the PSA 4’s $200.00.
Where the Unlimited Charizard value concentrates
The famous grade is not where the money is. On PSA’s averages, the 487 PSA 10s add up to about $5.2 million, 8.6% of the total. The 16,460 PSA 6s alone come to about $6.3 million, more than every PSA 10 combined, because there are 34 of them for every gem.
Two grades carry the pile. PSA 9 (8,424 slabs) and PSA 8 (15,407 slabs) together hold 50.8% of the paper value. PSA 7 and everything below it, more than half of all slabs, add up to $24.5 million, or 40.6% of the total. Every grade from PSA 1 to PSA 4 still averaged more than two hundred dollars a slab.
That shape explains how a card with six-figure population can stay valuable copy by copy. Demand for the card is deep enough that even a creased, worn PSA 2 sells for a couple of hundred dollars, and there are tens of thousands of mid-grade slabs at several hundred dollars each. Multiply a modest price by a very large count and the total gets big without any single copy being expensive. For the full grade breakdown, half grades and gem rate, see our Unlimited Charizard PSA population by grade.
The same pile at 2026 auction prices
PSA’s averages lag the market at the top. Its PSA 10 average of $10,640.07 compares with a PSA 10 that Goldin sold in March 2026 for $34,770, about 3.3 times as much. So we reran the top three rows using dated Goldin results and kept PSA’s averages for PSA 7 and below, where we found no 2026 auction-house sales.
| Grade | PSA average (to March 2026) | Goldin 2026 sale, all-in | Population x Goldin price (our math) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $10,640.07 | $34,770 (March 2026) | $16.9 million |
| PSA 9 | $2,066.76 | $2,480 (February 2026) to $3,386 (August 2026) | $20.9 million to $28.5 million |
| PSA 8 | $860.33 | $1,708 (September 2026) | $26.3 million |
| PSA 7 and below | PSA averages kept | no Goldin price used | $24.5 million |
The result is a scenario, not a valuation: about $88.7 million with PSA 9s at the February price and $96.3 million at the August one. In the higher version the PSA 10 row becomes 18% of the total, so the top grade matters more in a hot market, but PSA 9 and PSA 8 still carry more of it. Two cautions apply. Goldin prices include its buyer’s premium, which its fee page lists as “Buyer’s Premium 22% ($19 min)”, while PSA’s eBay records do not. And one strong auction result per grade is a thin basis for pricing fifteen thousand slabs.
Growth pushes the other way. Goldin’s October 2026 lot puts PSA’s census at more than 105,365 Unlimited Charizards. Holding the March average of $652 per slab, that larger count projects to about $68.7 million. It is a projection on an older price mix, nothing more.
CGC and TAG Charizards, valued separately
PSA is not the only grader. On October 23, 2026, CGC’s report listed 14,977 Unlimited Charizards on its main line and TAG’s listed 1,472. We do not fold them into the PSA total, for two reasons: some cards have moved between companies and would be counted twice, and we only have dated prices for a few CGC grades.
- CGC Gem Mint 10 (285 slabs): two Goldin sales, $4,964 in February 2026 and $5,616 in August 2026. At those prices the 285 add up to about $1.4 million to $1.6 million, on our math. The handful of Pristine and Perfect 10s are rarer still and unpriced here.
- CGC 8.5 (1,672 slabs): one Goldin sale at $808 in August 2026, which puts the grade at about $1.4 million.
- The other CGC grades (13,020 slabs): no dated sale in our records, so no total.
- TAG (1,472 slabs): no dated TAG Unlimited Charizard sale in our records, so no total.
Beckett slabs sell too (a BGS 9.5 brought $8,540 at Goldin in September 2026), but Beckett’s population was not readable, so they cannot be counted at all. The CGC slices above, 1,957 slabs worth up to about $3.0 million together, are labelled partial on purpose. For how a CGC copy prices against a PSA one, see our CGC vs PSA price difference guide and the crossover grading hub.
Why nobody could cash out the total
A paper total is a useful scale, and a terrible sale price. Three things stand in the way.
The market is far thinner than the population
PSA’s page records 9,917 auction sales of this card worth $6,617,774.96 in all, an average of $667 per sale. Every recorded sale it has ever tracked adds up to about 11% of today’s paper value on averages. Put fifteen thousand PSA 8s on the market in one month and the PSA 8 price would not hold; a market-cap figure assumes it would.
Slabs are not unique cards
PSA itself warns that collectors “crack out their cards to have them signed, resubmit, or sell raw”, and the old grade stays counted unless the label is returned. Some of the 93,573 slabs are the same card graded more than once, so the population overstates how many separate cards there are. Nobody publishes how many.
Prices move and fees bite
Selling costs (auction premiums on the buyer’s side, commissions and marketplace fees on the seller’s) come off whatever the market pays. Prices also change: the gap between PSA’s PSA 10 average and Goldin’s March result shows how much a single grade can move. The totals here are a snapshot, best read as the order of magnitude: tens of millions of dollars, not hundreds of millions, and not a few million either.
Graded copies against roughly 3 million printed
Our own estimate of the Unlimited Charizard print run lands near 3 million cards, within a likely band of 2 million to 4.5 million. Set against that middle figure, PSA had slabbed roughly 3.1% of the print by March 2026, and our Charizard count pillar sets the Unlimited card against 1st Edition and Shadowless.
We do not put a value on the raw copies. There is no population report for them, many were lost or destroyed long ago, and a raw Charizard’s price swings with condition far more than any graded figure suggests. Multiplying 3 million by a raw price would produce a big, meaningless number. The graded pile is likely a better-than-average slice of the print, since a grading fee only makes sense on a copy in decent shape.
For the current price of a single copy by grade, the Unlimited Charizard price history follows sold listings on eBay and TCGPlayer and at Goldin and Fanatics Collect.
How the Unlimited Charizard compares with other 100,000-copy collectibles
Large counts and high prices coexist in other hobbies too, but the shape differs. San Francisco struck exactly 100,000 Morgan dollars dated 1893-S, yet PCGS estimates only 9,948 survive in all grades, and even badly worn coins start above $2,500. That is scarcity by loss: roughly nine in ten no longer exist. The Charizard is the reverse, with the graded count rising every month.
The 1914-D Lincoln cent is the closer match on numbers, with about 120,000 survivors on PCGS’s estimate. Its low grades sold for $123 to $192 in PCGS-graded auctions between 2022 and 2025, in the same range as a low-grade Charizard slab. Among sports cards, PSA has assessed more than 29,600 copies of the 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie, and a PSA 10 sold for $228,000 in December 2025. A big population only stays valuable with deep demand, though: PSA 9 copies of the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie sold for $187.50 and $213.50 in February 2025.
We work through each of these, with mintages, survivors, graded counts and rough totals, in collectibles with 100,000 copies that are still valuable. On PSA’s March 2026 figures, a PSA 1 Unlimited Charizard averaged $215.21; price all 93,573 slabs at that bottom-grade average and they would still total about $20.1 million.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much are all the Unlimited Charizards worth?
Nobody can say for the whole print run, because most copies are raw and unpriced. For the PSA-graded ones, our arithmetic on PSA’s March 2, 2026 figures comes to about $60.4 million at average prices, or $65.3 million using each grade’s latest recorded sale. It is a paper figure; no one could sell every copy at once at those prices.
What is the market cap of Base Set Unlimited Charizard?
Collectibles have no official market cap. If you treat PSA’s 93,573 slabs like shares and multiply by PSA’s average price per grade, you get roughly $60 million; at 2026 Goldin prices for the top three grades, about $88.7 million to $96.3 million.
Which grade of Unlimited Charizard holds the most total value?
PSA 9. Its 8,424 slabs at a $2,066.76 average add up to about $17,410,386, 28.8% of the PSA total. PSA 9 and PSA 8 together account for 50.8%.
How much is a PSA 10 Unlimited Charizard worth?
A PSA 10 sold at Goldin in March 2026 for $34,770 including the buyer’s premium. PSA’s own average for the grade, across every recorded sale up to March 2026, was $10,640.07, which reflects older and cheaper sales.
Do the CGC and TAG Charizards change the total?
They add to it, but we keep them separate. CGC listed 14,977 and TAG 1,472 Unlimited Charizards on October 23, 2026, and only some CGC grades have dated sale prices. Adding them to PSA would also double-count cards that moved between graders.
Are raw Unlimited Charizards included?
No. Against our estimate of about 3 million printed, PSA slabs covered only 3.1% by March 2026. Raw copies have no population report, so there is nothing reliable to multiply.
Sources
- Auction Prices Realized: 1999 Pokemon Game Charizard-Holo (prices and population by grade) — PSA, archived by the Internet Archive, Wayback Machine capture of March 2, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard PSA Gem MT 10 (Pokemon 30th Anniversary Auction) — Goldin, lot page read October 6, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard PSA Gem MT 10 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard PSA Mint 9 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard PSA Mint 9 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard PSA NM-MT 8 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard CGC Gem Mint 10 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard CGC Gem Mint 10 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Charizard CGC NM/Mint+ 8.5 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- Goldin lot: Base Set Unlimited Charizard BGS Gem Mint 9.5 — Goldin, lot page read October 23, 2026
- About Goldin (buyer’s premium) — Goldin, read October 23, 2026
- Population Report: Base Set Unlimited (English) — CGC Cards, read October 23, 2026
- Pop Report: 1999 WOTC Pokemon Base Set — TAG Grading, read October 23, 2026
- What is the POP Report and how do I use it? — PSA, read October 6, 2026
- How many Base Set Unlimited Charizards were printed in total? — Pokemon Pricing, read October 23, 2026
- 1893-S $1 Morgan dollar (CoinFacts) — PCGS, read October 23, 2026
- 1914-D 1C BN Lincoln cent (CoinFacts) — PCGS, read October 23, 2026
- 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan #57 PSA 10 (sold lot) — Fanatics Collect, read October 23, 2026
- Auction Prices Realized: 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. #1 — PSA, archived by the Internet Archive, Wayback Machine capture of February 6, 2025
Population figures are snapshots of each grading company’s report on the date shown. Total-value figures on this page are Pokemon Pricing’s arithmetic (copies times a published price), labelled as such: no one could sell every copy at those prices at once. Sale prices are single dated results. This article is collector information, not investment advice. Pokémon and all card names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.; Pokemon Pricing is not affiliated with them or with any grading company.