Espeon Gold Star #16 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 15 Sept 2026Related Espeon & chase cards
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Espeon Gold Star is one of those cards that makes longtime collectors stop scrolling. It's a Rare pull from POP Series 5, released back in 2007, with artwork from Masakazu Fukuda that still holds up all these years later. If you're trying to pin down Espeon value right now, the short answer is that this little gold star card carries real weight in the market, and there's a lot worth understanding before you buy, sell, or send one off for grading.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $6.8k, up 84% over the past year, with an all-time high of $6.8k in October 2026.
Recent pulls of Espeon
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
$3.54RawPuffer's PacksPacks · 24m ago$3.54RawPuffer's PacksPacks · 24m ago
-RawPokémon Common PackPackz · 1h ago-RawPokémon Common PackPackz · 2h ago
$27CGC 10 GEM MINTPokémon Starter PackCourtyard · 3h ago-RawPokémon Common PackPackz · 4h ago
-RawPokémon Common PackPackz · 5h ago-RawPokémon Common PackPackz · 6h ago
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Espeon price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 774 graded, only 58 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $64k | 58 |
| PSA 9 | $15k | 156 |
| PSA 8 | $15k | 105 |
| PSA 7 | $7.1k | 104 |
| PSA 6 | $5.7k | 75 |
| PSA 5 | $4.6k | 84 |
| PSA 4 | $3.9k | 62 |
| PSA 3 | $3.3k | 44 |
| PSA 2 | $3.0k | 32 |
| PSA 1 | $6.2k | 54 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $6.8k | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Set
- POP Series 5
- Card number
- 16 of 17
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Psychic
- HP
- 70
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Psychic x2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Released
- 2007
Attacks
- Psychic Boom30+Psychic · Psychic · Colorless
Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
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The collector's take on Espeon
Is Espeon worth grading?
Here's the honest math on Espeon price across grades: a raw, ungraded copy sits at $5,183, a Grade 9 comes in at $15,351, and a PSA 10 reaches $73,060, which works out to about 14.1x what the raw card sells for. That's a serious jump, and it's tempting to think every copy you own should go straight into a grading submission. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a card like this, especially one from 2007 that's had years to pick up whitening, edge wear, or print imperfections nobody notices until it's under a grader's light. Grading costs money and time, and there's no guarantee you land a 10 instead of a 9, so if you're asking whether Espeon is worth grading, the answer depends on how clean your copy already looks in hand, not just on the price gap.
How rare is Espeon?
Population numbers tell the real story here. Only 774 copies of this card have been graded in total, and of those, just 58 have earned a PSA 10. That's a small slice of an already small pool, which is exactly why gem mint copies command such a premium over raw and Grade 9 examples. When a card is this scarce at the top end, every additional PSA 10 that surfaces matters, and it's a big part of why the value climbs so sharply the closer you get to perfect.
Where can you pull Espeon?
PackSpy has tracked 44 recorded pulls of Espeon across courtyard, lastpack, and packs, so this isn't just a card people talk about, it's one that actually shows up when packs get opened. We've seen it come out of Pokémon Pro Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, noobie, Puffer's Packs, and Pokémon Starter Pack, with the biggest recorded pull value on our site sitting at $95. That number is a good reminder of how pack opening actually works: most rips don't land anywhere near a card's full market price, and plenty lose money outright. Real pull data like this is something no price guide gives you, and it's why we think it's worth watching before you decide whether to chase this one in packs or just buy it outright on the secondary market.
Questions people ask
How much is Espeon worth?+
A raw, ungraded Espeon Gold Star is currently valued at $5,183. That number can shift quite a bit depending on condition and grade, with Grade 9 copies reaching $15,351 and PSA 10s going for $73,060.
Is Espeon worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sells for 14.1x what a raw copy brings. But gem mint is tough to land, and grading always carries cost and risk, so it really comes down to how sharp your specific copy looks before you send it in.
How much is a PSA 10 Espeon worth?+
A PSA 10 Espeon Gold Star is worth $73,060. Only 58 copies out of 774 total graded have reached that grade, which is a big reason the price sits so far above the raw and Grade 9 figures.
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