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Venusaur 15/102

Set: Base Set Released: Jan 9, 1999
Pokémon: Venusaur Grass Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate:1 in 45 packs (2.2%) Evolves From: Ivysaur

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Venusaur #15/102 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Venusaur #15/102 from Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Venusaur has moved down 7.3% to $168.98. PSA 10 copies are up 6.2% over the same period.

Venusaur #15/102 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.

Venusaur #15/102 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set.

At $168.98 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $1,283.69, giving a net return of +$919.83 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$343.04 and PSA 8 returns +$542.52, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 47,392 copies of Venusaur #15/102, of which 583 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 1.2%, or roughly 1 in 81 graded copies.

Yes. At a 1.2% gem rate, Venusaur grades worse than the Base Set average by 16.5 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Venusaur #15/102 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Venusaur #15/102 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.