Temporal Forces
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Pokemon Meltan 179/162 Illustration Rare IR Temporal Forces
$4.89
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Temporal Forces · #179 · 2024
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. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$6.84
down6% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 10, 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 $53.00 · PSA 9 $28.00 · CGC 10 $19.20
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 Temporal Forces
172 ungraded eBay listings · asking from $4.89
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$6.84 (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.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
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
172 ungraded Buy It Now listings · asking from $4.89 · median ask $7.50 (47 asks)
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Item prices asked right now for ungraded, Buy It Now copies of this exact card — what sellers want, not what copies sell for. Graded slabs and auctions are left out. The TCGplayer market price above is the sold-side yardstick.
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$6.25free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.9% seller
vs raw market $6.84: 9% under
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$6.00+ $1.32 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.8% seller
vs raw market $6.84: 7% above
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$6.99
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$7.00+ $1.00 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $6.84: 17% above
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$7.49free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $6.84: 10% above
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$9.11free shipping
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vs raw market $6.84: 33% above
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$7.00
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Listings from eBay as of our last check — some may have sold since.How we compare →
What it actually sells for
Our chart tracks TCGplayer's market price and the asking prices of live eBay listings — what sellers want, not what buyers paid. Completed sale prices live on eBay itself: see recent sold listings for this card →
Meltan sits at $6.84 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside Temporal Forces, that ranks 42nd out of 218 priced cards. The set's top card is Gastly at $94.22. We've logged its price daily since Mar 20, 2024: $8.45 then, $6.84 now (down 19.1%). A year ago it sat around $4.42; today's $6.84 is 54.8% higher. Over the last 90 days it's down 1.2%, from $6.92. Since March 2024 it's run as high as $8.45 (March 2024) and as low as $1.14 (April 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $6.65 up to $7.27. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €4.41 on Cardmarket.
Around the World
$6.84
USD is TCGplayer's market price for the English print; EUR is Cardmarket's, shared across the European printings (Cardmarket prices the physical card). Both update daily.
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Cost: Metal, Metal
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About $6.84 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 10, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $53.00 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $6.84 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 1% over the last 3 months — from $6.92 to $6.84 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 55%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $8.45 — that was March 2024. We've been writing this card's price down since March 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €4.41 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $6.84 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 Meltan (Temporal Forces #179) (172 right now). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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