Pokémon Houndoom Prime HGSS — Trio of Top-Graded Italian Copies

Three copies of Houndoom Prime from HeartGold & SoulSilver, all in Italian, offered together as a single group. The composition is what makes the lot: one PSA 10 GEM MINT example, the only one recorded for the Italian printing, and two BGS 9.5 GEM MINT examples, which together represent the entire population of that grade. No BGS 10 and no further PSA 10 is currently registered.

Houndoom Prime is one of the defining cards of the HGSS block, an era in which the Prime rarity gave the game its most distinctive dark-style artwork. The Italian printing was produced in limited quantity and has become effectively impossible to find sealed, which explains the concentration of the grading population in a handful of examples and the weight the card carries among collectors of the block.

Gathering every top-graded copy of a single card into one lot is a configuration that is very rarely offered and cannot easily be repeated: it addresses collectors of HGSS and Italian-language Prime cards, and anyone building a set defined by population rather than by quantity.