Question 1

Is Butterfree worth grading?

Accepted Answer

So is Butterfree worth grading? It depends on what you are holding. A PSA 10 is worth 222.9 times more than a raw copy, which is a serious jump, but that number only helps you if your card actually grades that high, and gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on an Expedition era holo where centering and surface wear were never a priority back in 2002. A Grade 9 already brings $1,098, which is solid, but it is a fraction of what the perfect copy fetches, so the real risk sits in that narrow band between a 9 and a 10. Factor in grading fees, turnaround time, and the chance your card comes back lower than hoped, and grading starts to look like its own kind of gamble layered on top of the one you already took opening the pack.

Question 2

How rare is Butterfree?

Accepted Answer

Only 910 copies of Butterfree have been graded in total, and of those just 38 have reached PSA 10. When you sit with those numbers for a second, the picture gets clearer, gem mint Butterfrees are a genuinely small club, roughly one in every 24 graded copies. That kind of scarcity at the top end is exactly why the PSA 10 price sits so far above the raw and Grade 9 figures, and it is why patient collectors who land a true gem mint copy tend to hold onto it rather than sell.

Question 3

Where can you pull Butterfree?

Accepted Answer

Here is where PackSpy's own data earns its keep, we have recorded Butterfree pulled 85 times across tilt-rips, courtyard breaks, and standard pack openings, with the biggest recorded pull coming in at $24. It has turned up in a real mix of products too, including the Pokemon Mini Pack, Novice Pack, Pokémon Starter Pack, VMAX Stampede, and Pokémon Basic Pack. That spread tells you Butterfree is not locked to one product, it shows up here and there across different pack types, though worth saying plainly that opening packs chasing a specific card is a gamble and most rips do not come close to covering their cost, this data is about honesty on the odds, not a promise.

Question 4

How much is Butterfree worth?

Accepted Answer

A raw or ungraded Butterfree from Expedition currently sits at $116. Once you factor in grading, the value shifts a lot depending on condition, with a Grade 9 worth $1,098 and a PSA 10 reaching $25,750.

Question 5

Is Butterfree worth grading?

Accepted Answer

It can be, but only if you think the card has real gem mint potential, since a PSA 10 sells for 222.9 times more than a raw copy. With only 38 PSA 10s out of 910 total graded copies, hitting that top grade is far from guaranteed, so weigh the grading cost against the realistic outcome before sending it in.

Question 6

How much is a PSA 10 Butterfree worth?

Accepted Answer

A PSA 10 Butterfree is currently valued at $25,750, making it by far the most valuable version of the card. That is a steep climb from the $116 raw price and reflects just how rare a perfect copy is, with only 38 existing in that grade.

Grade	Value	Population	PSA / CGC
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)	$26k	38	19 / 19
PSA 9	$1.1k	224	193 / 31
PSA 8	$391	296	234 / 62
PSA 7	$206	159	134 / 25
PSA 6	$150	97	85 / 12
PSA 5	$130	62	50 / 12
PSA 4	$97	20	17 / 3
PSA 3	$82	4	3 / 1
PSA 2	$33	3	3 / -
PSA 1	$90	7	7 / -
Raw / Ungraded	$124	-	-

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