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Start Tracking Now — It’s FreeNinetales #12/102 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting
Answers about Ninetales #12/102 from Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.
Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Ninetales has moved down 15.1% to $35.61. PSA 10 copies are down 4.2% over the same period.
Ninetales #12/102 appears roughly 1 in 45 packs, which works out at 2.2% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Base Set.
Ninetales #12/102 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set.
At $35.61 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $1,763.46, giving a net return of +$1,470.60 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$402.02 and PSA 8 returns +$88.64, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.
PSA have graded 21,557 copies of Ninetales #12/102, of which 479 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 2.2%, or roughly 1 in 45 graded copies.
Yes. At a 2.2% gem rate, Ninetales grades worse than the Base Set average by 15.4 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.
Ninetales #12/102 was illustrated by Ken Sugimori, who has illustrated 2072 Pokémon cards in total.
Ninetales #12/102 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.
Fire 
Water ×2 
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