Pokemon League Eevee pop report: 31 tens and a $146,400 sale

Published October 27, 2026 · Pop figures refresh with every site build; the current pull is October 23, 2026

A PSA 10 of this Eevee sold for $146,400 at Goldin on Sunday night, October 25, 2026. Four bids, $120,000 on the hammer. That same week a Near Mint raw copy of the same card traded at $53.50 on TCGplayer.

There are 31 Gem Mint copies on the planet. The distance between those two numbers is the post.

What does the Pokemon League Eevee pop report say?

10,941 graded at the October 1, 2026 pull. 31 tens, 1,751 nines, 4,009 eights, 38 copies labelled Authentic with no number, and 5,112 finishing at PSA 7 or lower, which is 46.72 percent of everything ever mailed in. PSA added 164 more last period on a thirty day trend of +59%.

Seven hundred and twenty seven rows in the dataset have passed 10,000 grades. Ten of them sit under half a percent Gem Mint, and Eevee number 11 is the only promo card among the ten. The other nine came out of booster packs: the Neo Genesis Lugia that gems least of anything this heavily graded, two Jungle holos, three Fossil holos, Base Set 2 Charizard, and the shadowless and unlimited Base Set Charizards. A card handed over a counter at a hobby shop is keeping company with the most famous holo rares of the era. If that census shape is unfamiliar, start with how a population report is assembled.

Four weeks, and the Pokemon never moved

Between July 1 and September 28, 2026, eighteen PSA 9 copies changed hands at a $392.86 median. Between September 29 and October 26, ten more cleared $1,512.50, with the high at $3,650.00 on October 12. The 7 did the same thing in miniature across those two windows, $62.00 up to $115.50.

Raw did none of it. Twenty two TCGplayer Near Mint sales before September 29 median $53.50. Six after it, through October 24, median $53.50. Not a dollar.

So the thing being repriced is not Eevee.

It is the census. Nobody paid $146,400 for an illustration they can buy for fifty bucks; they paid for a slab that 0.28 percent of submissions produce. PriceCharting's own algorithm had not caught up on October 27, 2026, still printing $6,033.74 in its PSA 10 column, roughly a twenty fourth of the Goldin result, and $1,055.63 at the 9 against the $1,512.50 the dated tape shows. Models fed on sales take a while to notice when the sales stop being ordinary.

Where the tens go instead

Put the top two rungs beside each other: 1,751 nines against 31 tens. Fewer than two copies in a hundred that got as far as a 9 took the last step. And 4,009 stopped at 8, which is 36.64 percent of the census and the single most common outcome on the card. Grade 8 here is not where beaten copies land. It is where a clean one lands.

Goldin's lot description named its own suspects: print lines, peripheral wear, and what it called "haphazard vintage quality control." That is a seller describing a lot it is selling, so read it as an informed opinion rather than a study. The card supplies a better test, and it is the only Wizards promo that can.

Wizards gave Kagemaru Himeno's Eevee a cosmos foil window and handed it out through the Pokemon League in June 2000. Japan got the same English card with no foil at all. JR East awarded the non holofoil print to passengers who completed the gold course of its Pokemon Stamp Rally, run on the network between August 1 and 20, 2000, and PSA's census carries both prints: 10,941 grades at 0.28 percent on the foil, 602 grades at 45.18 percent on the flat one. Across all fifty three numbered Wizards promos, number 11 is the only card whose English census holds a holofoil row and a non holofoil row of the same picture.

Six hundred and two is a thin census belonging to a self selected group, and people mail in the tidy ones, so that 45.18 percent is flattered. A factor of roughly a hundred and sixty is not a sampling artifact. Jungle produced the same contrast inside one set and returned a factor of 55, and the 2001 end of this same promo run found the effect depends on which foil pattern Wizards used. One more line settles the direction: PSA last awarded a 10 to the foil print on September 3, 2025, and awarded one to the flat print on September 5, 2026.

The tier that stopped covering its own 9

PSA Standard costs $59.99 and accepts a declared value up to $1,000, read on psacard.com on October 27, 2026. In September that comfortably covered the likely outcome on this card. In October it does not, because the 1,751 nines now median $1,512.50, which also clears the $1,500 ceiling on Priority at $79.99. Express at $199.00 and $2,500 is the first tier that actually insures what you are probably going to get back. Value services remain paused.

Turnaround decides more than the fee. Priority runs 70 to 80 business days, about four calendar months of holding a card whose 9 quadrupled in four weeks; Express runs 20 to 30. The table above prices the Priority route because that is the realistic submission, with the caveat that it insures $1,500 of a $1,512.50 median.

Net 15 percent out of every rung for marketplace fees and run the whole ladder. The ten returns $124,440 and arrives 0.28 percent of the time, the nine $1,285.62 at 16.00 percent, the eight $90.99 at 36.64 percent, the seven $64.17 at 25.05 percent, and 6 or lower plus Authentic is carried at measured 2026 medians of $44.99, $39.51 and $30.00. That weights out to about $615 of expected return on $133.49 spent.

Take the Gem Mint row out entirely and it still comes to about $263. This is the rare vintage submission where the 9 pays for the attempt on its own, which is exactly what you want and also exactly the part that just moved 3.9 times in a month.

Before you mail one

The foil on this card is a small window in the middle of a flat yellow face, so tilting it is the wrong first move. Check the four corners and the bottom edge first, because a Pokemon League card was handed to a kid loose and travelled home in a pocket, then read the cosmos field for the faint parallel streak a tired print run leaves behind. Of everything already submitted, 46.72 percent came back at 7 or lower, and most of it belonged to somebody who thought theirs looked fine.

If you would rather own the grade than chase it, the 9 is the honest rung: 1,751 of them exist, which means you can actually buy and sell one, and that liquidity is the whole reason it reprices faster than the cardboard underneath it. Just price it knowing the $1,512.50 median is four weeks old and rests partly on one auction. The BetterPop gallery puts the rest of the Wizards promo run next to it, and the wider question of which tens stay scarce runs through the same arithmetic.

Sources

• GemRate PSA population data via the BetterPop dataset, October 1, 2026 row pull. The 727 rows past 10,000 grades, the ten rows under half a percent, the Jr. Stamp Rally row at 602 grades and 272 tens, and the claim that number 11 is the only Wizards promo with both a holofoil and a non holofoil English row were computed across all 111,784 rows on October 27, 2026. Last Gem Mint dates come from the same pull: September 3, 2025 for the foil print, September 5, 2026 for the flat one.
• Goldin, 2000 Pokemon Black Star Promo Pokemon League Holo #11 Eevee, PSA GEM MT 10, lot 118, read October 27, 2026. Sold $146,400 on a $120,000 winning bid against 4 bids, closing Sunday October 25, 2026 at 10:53 PM EDT, PSA certificate 105186241. The lot description is also the source for the print lines and peripheral wear language, and Goldin's own one in 352 figure matches the dataset.
• PriceCharting, Eevee #11 Pokemon Promo, price table and all thirteen completed sale tables read October 27, 2026. Medians here are taken only from PSA titled rows, with CGC, BGS and TAG rows and the Jr. Stamp Rally copies filtered out, because the site's grade columns pool graders and both prints share one product page. PSA 9: eighteen sales July 1 to September 28, 2026 at a $392.86 median, ten sales September 29 to October 26 at $1,512.50. PSA 7: $62.00 then $115.50 across the same windows. PSA 8 $107.05, PSA 6 $44.99, PSA 5 $39.51, PSA 4 $30.00, all 2026 medians. Raw figure is the TCGplayer Near Mint rows on the same page, 28 sales June 18 to October 24, 2026, median $53.50 on both sides of September 29.
• Bulbapedia, Eevee (Wizards Promo 11) and Wizards Black Star Promos (TCG), both read October 27, 2026, for the Kagemaru Himeno illustration credit, the Pokemon League release in June 2000, and the non holofoil English print awarded for the gold course of the JR East Pokemon Stamp Rally 2000 between August 1 and 20, 2000. Meowth number 10 received the same treatment through JR West that summer, but PSA's census holds no non holofoil row for it.
• TCGdex, card basep-11, read October 27, 2026, as the independent check on the variant pair: it lists exactly two variants, a holo with a cosmos foil and a normal carrying a jr-stamp-rally stamp, and number 11 is the only card of the 53 it records with both.
• PSA, grading pricing, read October 27, 2026, for Standard at $59.99 against $1,000 and 90 to 100 business days, Priority at $79.99 against $1,500 and 70 to 80, Express at $199.00 against $2,500 and 20 to 30, and the paused Value services.