Chansey's 1st Edition PSA 10 sells for $288,000 as vintage Pokémon keeps climbing

A PSA 10 of Chansey from the 1999 Pokémon Base Set 1st Edition sold for $288,000 at Fanatics Collect on Nov. 1. Chansey has plenty of fans, me included. It's fluffy, pink, and about as cute as a Base Set holo gets.

The Chansey is one more data point in a run across the 1st Edition holo set. I pulled PSA 10 sales of eight of its holos back to November 2025. All eight sell for more since August than they did in the nine months before. The data is thin at the top. Chansey sold twice before Aug. 1 and twice after. Charizard has only two since. The case rests on the five holos that sold at least five times both before and after Aug. 1: Alakazam, Blastoise, Gyarados, Mewtwo and Venusaur. All five moved up.

PSA has graded 2,957 copies of the 1st Edition Chansey and only 48 came back 10s as of Nov. 6. That's the fewest PSA 10s of the eight holos. The 1st Edition Venusaur has 145. Anyone building the holo set in PSA 10 has to land one of those 48 Chanseys.

The big holos kept selling into the fall. A 1st Edition Charizard PSA 10 sold for $1,380,000 at Fanatics Collect on Oct. 22. A 1st Edition Blastoise PSA 10 also sold at Fanatics Collect on Nov. 1, for $108,000. The run isn't only Base Set either. Jungle 1st Edition holos led this year's vintage climb, as we reported Oct. 23.

A 1st Edition Chansey PSA 9 sold for $4,050 on eBay on Nov. 3, against $288,000 for the 10.

The $288,000 is the most a 1st Edition Chansey PSA 10 has brought in the four sales we found over the past year. Goldin's Fall TCG Elite auction has two complete PSA-graded 1st Edition Base Sets up for bid, Chansey included. Extended bidding starts Nov. 29.