Swampert's EX Emerald reverse holo is up for auction attracting mid-era low-pop Pokemon collectors

Blaziken's and Sceptile's reverse holo PSA 10s sold for $31,800 and $15,502 in October, while Swampert's hasn't sold since it went for $455 in March 2025.

Original source: alt.xyz

By Jeff NewmanPokémonNov 13

A 2005 Pokémon EX Emerald Swampert #11 reverse holo in PSA 10 is up for auction on Alt. On Friday the high bid stood at $2,541 on seven bids, or $3,049 once Alt adds its 20% buyer's premium. The auction is scheduled to close at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 19. The card's owner, who consigned it, brought the auction to us and has a financial interest in the sale.

Alt auction page for the Swampert reverse holo PSA 10 showing a $2,541 high bid on seven bids on Nov. 13, 2026 — Photo: Alt auction page

The last Swampert reverse holo PSA 10 to sell publicly went for $455 on eBay in March 2025, before the EX Emerald starters took off. Blaziken's EX Emerald #1 reverse holo had gone even longer without a public PSA 10 sale, from June 2024 until one sold for $31,800 at Fanatics Collect on Oct. 11. Four days later, a PSA 10 of Sceptile's EX Emerald #10 reverse holo went for $15,502 in an eBay auction.

Swampert's reverse holo is also the scarcest of the six EX Emerald starter cards in a PSA 10. PSA has graded 192 of them and given only 8 a 10. Blaziken's reverse has 12 and Sceptile's has 28, while every regular holo has at least 26. It costs more raw too: since August the stamped reverse has sold for about $194 against about $47 for the holo.

The rest of Swampert's market has run with the other starters. The Swampert EX Emerald #11 holo sold for $7,500 in PSA 10 as an eBay buy-it-now in September, then for $4,920 at a Fanatics Collect auction on Oct. 25. A Swampert reverse holo PSA 9 went for $1,099 at Fanatics Collect on Oct. 19. All three sold well above where those grades sold a year ago. Not every sale has held the October level, though. Blaziken's EX Emerald #1 holo sold for $8,100 in PSA 10 on Nov. 9, under the $13,100 one brought on Oct. 26. These are thin markets. With so few copies trading, one or two bidders can set the price for a whole card.

At $3,049 all in, the Swampert reverse is bid below its holo's last two PSA 10 sales and below the Blaziken and Sceptile reverses' PSA 10 sales, but above the $1,099 its PSA 9 brought in October. The close on Nov. 19 will be its first public PSA 10 price since March 2025 and the first one set during this run.