Expedition Base Set · #73 · 2002
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$45.02
up15% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 8, 2026
Graded: Examined by a professional company, scored 1–10, and sealed in a labeled case. Graded copies trade at their own prices, grade by grade. PSA 10 $180 · PSA 9 $45.00 · CGC 10 $120
Set rank: Where this card's market price ranks among the priced cards in its set — #1 is the set's most valuable card. in Expedition Base Set
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$45.02 (TCGplayer Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily.)
PSA: Professional Sports Authenticator, the biggest grading company. Grades 1–10; PSA 10 is Gem Mint, and PSA slabs are the easiest to price and sell.
CGC: Certified Guaranty Company, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10, with a Pristine 10 above Gem Mint 10; CGC slabs often sell a little below PSA.
Latest sold prices As of (a date): The price in force on the day we last checked — not a sale that closed that day. Rows marked “sold” carry the real sale day.. PSA and CGC grade on the same 1–10 scale, but the market prices them differently — what grades mean →
Sold data via Card Hedge
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Charmeleon sits at $45.02 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside Expedition Base Set, that ranks 48th out of 165 priced cards. (Dragonite leads the set at $950.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 422.9% — from $8.61 to $45.02. Over the last year it's climbed 180.3%, from $16.06 to $45.02. The 90-day move: up 34.5%, $33.46 to $45.02. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $45.02 in October 2026; its lowest, $8.29 in June 2024. Today's price is the highest we've seen since February 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $45.02 at the top and $39.10 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $140. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €9.21.
By Printing
By printing: Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card. $45.02 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $140
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Normal printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Double Scratch20×
Cost: Colorless, Colorless
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.
Flamethrower50
Cost: Fire, Colorless, Colorless
Discard 1 Fire Energy card attached to Charmeleon.
About $45.02 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 8, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $180 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 8, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $45.02 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 35% over the last 3 months — from $33.46 to $45.02 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 180%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $45.02 — that was October 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since February 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €9.21 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $45.02 on TCGplayer. Two marketplaces, two currencies — so watch both numbers instead of converting one into the other.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Charmeleon (Expedition Base Set #73). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $45.02 today.
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