Bulbasaur 44/102

Set: Base Set Released: Jan 9, 1999
Pokémon: Bulbasaur Grass Type Common Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate: 1 in 5.3 packs (18.9%) Evolves To: Ivysaur

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Bulbasaur #44/102 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Bulbasaur #44/102 from Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Bulbasaur has moved up 5.2% to $3.03. PSA 10 copies are down 6% over the same period.

Bulbasaur #44/102 appears roughly 1 in 5.3 packs, which works out at 18.9% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Base Set.

Bulbasaur #44/102 is a Common, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set.

At $3.03 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $349.02, giving a net return of +$272.62 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$16.45 and PSA 8 returns +$34.21, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 13,287 copies of Bulbasaur #44/102, of which 2,229 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 16.8%, or roughly 1 in 6.0 graded copies.

Yes. At a 16.8% gem rate, Bulbasaur grades worse than the Base Set average by 1.1 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Bulbasaur #44/102 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Bulbasaur #44/102 was released on 9 January 1999 as part of Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.