Booster Pack

About Base Set

Set released

January 9, 1999

Series

Base

Cards in set

102

The set that started it all: 102 cards, released in North America in January 1999. Its holographic Charizard became the most recognisable trading card of a generation, and first-edition and shadowless printings remain the benchmark for vintage Pokémon value.

Released Jan 1999 · History from May 2021 · 68 pointsMonthly ungraded prices imported from PriceCharting, continuing into PokéStocks' own daily tracking — the same price measure throughout, so this is one continuous series.