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Butterfree 5/165

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Set: Expedition Base Set Released: Sep 15, 2002
Pokémon: Butterfree Grass Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Sumiyoshi Kizuki Pull Rate:1 in 96 packs (1.0%) Evolves From: Metapod
Raw market price 180.00
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Raw market price 174.24 $4.25 (2.50%)
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Butterfree #5/165 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Butterfree #5/165 from Expedition Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Butterfree has stayed flat at $180.00. PSA 10 copies are up 13.4% over the same period.

Butterfree #5/165 appears roughly 1 in 96 packs, which works out at 1.0% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Expedition Base Set.

Butterfree #5/165 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Expedition Base Set.

At $180.00 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $55,256.91, giving a net return of +$47,865.51 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$1,771.02 and PSA 8 returns +$214.76, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 832 copies of Butterfree #5/165, of which 19 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 2.3%, or roughly 1 in 44 graded copies.

Yes. At a 2.3% gem rate, Butterfree grades worse than the Expedition Base Set average by 15.4 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Butterfree #5/165 was illustrated by Sumiyoshi Kizuki, who has illustrated 422 Pokémon cards in total.

Butterfree #5/165 was released on 15 September 2002 as part of Expedition Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.