Pokémon Charizard Holo — Base Set #4/102 (1999), PSA 9

The Charizard Holo of the English Base Set is the most iconic card in Pokémon collecting, recognised well beyond the boundaries of the hobby. Stage 2 with 120 HP, it appears in Mitsuhiro Arita's dynamic illustration against a red and orange ground that emphasises its nature as a fire dragon — the artwork that defined the visual imagination of the character.

This is the Unlimited printing of the 1999 Pokémon Game set, card #4/102, carrying the Pokémon Power Energy Burn and the Fire Spin attack for 100 damage, among the strongest and most played cards of its time.

Graded PSA 9 MINT, the card offers excellent preservation for a piece of 1999 with a population wider than that of the highest grades, and remains highly sought after. Demand on the international market is constant and liquidity holds even at significant levels: the Base Set Charizard is the entry point of any vintage Pokémon collection of consequence, and a PSA 9 keeps the prestige of the card intact at a level of accessibility that the rarest PSA 10 examples no longer offer.