Lugia 2/17

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Lugia has moved up 215.5% to $357.41. PSA 10 copies are unchanged over the same period.

Lugia #2/17 appears roughly 1 in 60 packs, which works out at 1.7% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from POP Series 5.

Lugia #2/17 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in POP Series 5.

At $357.41 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $511.00, giving a net return of +$59.16 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$102.63 and PSA 8 returns −$148.00, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 118 copies of Lugia #2/17, of which 12 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 10.2%, or roughly 1 in 9.8 graded copies.

No. At a 10.2% gem rate, Lugia grades better than the POP Series 5 average by 3.5 points. Most submitted copies come back clean.

Lugia #2/17 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Lugia #2/17 was released on 1 March 2007 as part of POP Series 5. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 2 Pokémon from the Johto region.