Armaldo ex 16/17

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Armaldo ex has moved up 67.6% to $40.12. PSA 10 copies are up 471.8% over the same period.

Armaldo ex #16/17 appears roughly 1 in 70 packs, which works out at 1.4% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from POP Series 1.

Armaldo ex #16/17 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in POP Series 1.

At $40.12 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $1,274.15, giving a net return of +$1,040.39 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$56.63 and PSA 8 returns −$32.25, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 130 copies of Armaldo ex #16/17, of which 18 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 13.9%, or roughly 1 in 7.2 graded copies.

Yes. At a 13.9% gem rate, Armaldo ex grades worse than the POP Series 1 average by 0.7 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Armaldo ex #16/17 was illustrated by Hikaru Koike, who has illustrated 88 Pokémon cards in total.

Armaldo ex #16/17 was released on 1 September 2004 as part of POP Series 1. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 3 Pokémon from the Hoenn region.