MoltresファイヤーLegendary Collection · #018/88 · 2002 · 🇯🇵 Japanese
A 1st Edition print of this card exists and trades above the figure above, which is the unlimited print.
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 15 confirmed sales of this card in the last 12 months across 3 venues in Japan and North America. The market price is up 25% over 90 days and up 25% over 30 days. The most recent sale we hold is 11 days old.
Why is it expensive? It prices in the top 6% of the catalogue because it is from Legendary Collection (2002).
Verdict recomputed 12m ago · it changes as the market does.
Moltres is card 18 of 88 in Legendary Collection, released in 2002 as part of the ポケモンカードe series. This is the Japanese printing (ファイヤー).
We hold 15 confirmed sales on record for this card across 4 venues in 2 regions — every price on this page traces back to them.
Descriptive market data, not investment advice. The Hoshino Score measures how deep, liquid, widely-traded, dear and scarce this card’s market is from sales and population records we hold. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and not a rating of this card as an investment.
Price by grade
What each grade’s real sales say — median of what actually sold.
Each grade is priced on the median of its own real sales — never averaged across grades, and never across printings. A 1st Edition, Shadowless or No Rarity copy is a different market from the ordinary print, so it gets its own row; where a grade holds sales of more than one printing and we cannot tell which copy sold, it is shown without a price — we abstain rather than publish the blend.
| Tier | Price | Confidence | Liquidity | Basis | Obs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw (ungraded) | $19.20 | Moderate3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 6 in 90d recorded | 13 sales · last recorded 11d ago | 13 |
| PSA 8 | — | — | none in 90d | 1 sale · single sale | 1 |
| PSA 9 | — | — | 1 in 90d recorded | 1 sale · single sale | 1 |
| PSA 10 | $103 | — | — | modeled est. est. from PSA 9 × 1.59 |
How confident are we in each of these prices?
There is no weighting and no hidden formula here. We ask five plain questions about the sales behind a price, and the rating is simply how many of them we can answer yes to. Every threshold is the one our pricing engine already uses to decide whether it trusts its own answer — none was invented for this rating. A grade we publish no price for gets no rating either: there would be nothing to rate.
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 13 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✗Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 125% around the median — wide enough that the median is close to a coin toss
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 11 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 4 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 3 of 13 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
Where a rung reads last recorded, its most recent sale came from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so that date is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real; the date is an observation and we will not dress it up as a timestamp.
Cross-market comparisons and arbitrage routes are computed within one grade — PSA 10 against PSA 10, raw against raw. A route is never built from two different grades.
Price trend
Median market price over time, plus the sale-by-sale receipts.
Each point is a real recorded sale at that grade, over the full time we hold. Grades trade at very different prices, so the trend is per grade — pick a grade above.
Daily snapshot medians · US market · raw bucket. — the broader raw market-price trend across the same period, alongside the graded sales above.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 11d ago recorded | 🇯🇵 Mercari Japan | Japan | PSA 9 | ¥9,999 · $64.75 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-09 11d ago recorded | 🇯🇵 Mercari Japan | Japan | NM | ¥2,222 · $14.39 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-09 11d ago recorded | 🇯🇵 Mercari Japan | Japan | NM | ¥3,500 · $22.67 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-09 11d ago recorded | 🇯🇵 Mercari Japan | Japan | NM | ¥2,500 · $16.19 | view ↗ |
The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. The full 15-point sale-by-sale history unlocks with Pro. Venue is the marketplace the sale actually cleared on — eBay, Goldin, ALT, Fanatics, SNKRDUNK and the rest — established from the sale’s own listing URL, its auction house, or the feed’s own declaration of the venue. A via tag names the data feed that delivered the record; the feed is never the venue. Where none of those establish a marketplace the row says venue not disclosed rather than naming one we cannot prove. Rows tagged guide are marketplace price-guide points (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend), not confirmed sales; rows tagged est. are inferred from a listing that left the market, not directly-recorded sales. Rows tagged recorded come from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so the date shown is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real either way; we do not invent a date.
We hold 3 sales of this card that are not allowed to price anything. Every figure on this page was computed with them removed. See what we set aside for this card, and why →
See the 30-day, 90-day and 1-year charts and every past sale on record — date, venue, region, grade and the price it actually fetched.
Buy from around the world
The lowest live ask on every platform we track — cheapest first.
The cheapest live ask in every region we track — real global pricing, not just the US.
See every listing we track and the net spread — cheapest ask first, the difference after ~13% marketplace + payment fees.
Asks are what sellers want; the price above is what the market actually clears at. Pro shows both sides plus the spread net of fees.
Sold around the world
Daily market prices by region and platform — what this card actually changes hands for worldwide, kept apart from seller asks.
Markets are too thin or divergent to quote a reliable cross-border spread on this card yet.
| Platform | Sales | Median | Low – High | Last sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | 8 | $19.20 | $10.24 – $51.20 | ¥3,500 · $22.67 27d ago |
| 🇯🇵 Mercari Japan | 3 | $16.19 | $14.39 – $22.67 | ¥2,222 · $14.39 11d ago recorded |
| 🇬🇧 eBay UK | 1 | $47.38 | $47.38 – $47.38 | £34.99 · $47.38 50d ago |
| 🇺🇸 eBay (US) | 1 | $7 | $7 – $7 | $7 6mo ago |
Daily market prices across 4 platforms in Japan, Europe, North America — counts are distinct sales, never duplicated listings. Guide rows (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend) are labelled as estimates, not sales. A recorded tag means that venue publishes no sale date, so its date is the day we saw the listing sold.
Should you grade it?
Expected grade × daily market prices − grading fees = net value, per grader.
See the full grader ladder — chance of a 10, what a 10 and a 9 actually fetch, and the fee, expected value and ROI on every route.
Should you grade it? Every grader route, your cost basis, and Japan vs the West → · or scan a photo of your copy
The same card, in English
One artwork trades in two markets under different numbers. Here is the other one.
Who is looking at this card
Demand and supply signals that move before price does.
This is where the attention layer goes: how much YouTube activity this card is getting (demand) against how many copies are listed for sale right now (supply). Rising demand into falling supply is the setup that moves before the price does — the leading indicator this category does not have.
We hold no readings for this card, so there is no number here. The model is built (src/attention); the collector has not run against this database yet, and until it has, an attention score would be something we made up. A blank panel that says so is the honest version of this section.
Long-term outlook
Transparent scenario model from real solds, supply and demand — bands widen with time.
See where this card is projected to be in 10 years — scenario bands, every horizon, and the long-term verdict.
Scenario projection based on demand/supply trends and known catalysts. Not investment advice and not a guarantee of future prices.
More from Legendary Collection
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Frequently asked questions
Answered from the data on this page — nothing here is written by hand.
How much is Moltres (Legendary Collection #018) worth?
Moltres (Legendary Collection #018) is worth $19.89 based on daily market prices (13 distinct sales) on Hoshino. Typical range: $11.78–$49.04 (raw/ungraded).
Where can I buy or sell Moltres (Legendary Collection #018)?
You can find Moltres (Legendary Collection #018) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay CA, eBay UK, eBay (US), eBay AU and recent solds from Yahoo! Japan Auctions, Mercari Japan, eBay UK, eBay (US). Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
Is Moltres (Legendary Collection #018) going up or down in price?
Moltres (Legendary Collection #018) is trending up in price. 30-day change: +25%. Based on live market data tracked on Hoshino.
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