The most valuable Mewtwo in the world right now is a card that is missing something. A PSA 10 copy of the 1996 Japanese Base Set Mewtwo printed with no rarity symbol sold for 603,900 dollars at Goldin in the Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction, with the lot recorded as closing on October 26. WorthPoint reports the same 603,900 dollar figure in its wrap of the auction, and UltraBall places the sale in its running tally of the biggest Pokémon card sales of 2026. Polkastarter, ranking confirmed Mewtwo sales at Goldin and Fanatics Collect, puts this printing first among all Mewtwo cards by a wide margin.
One year, eighteen times the price
The number that should stop collectors is not the headline. It is the one from last year. Polkastarter, working from the Fanatics Collect sold record, reports that a PSA 10 copy of this same card sold for 32,700 dollars on October 23, 2025. The Goldin lot drew 46 bids and reached a hammer price of 495,000 dollars before the buyer premium carried the total to 603,900 dollars, according to the Goldin lot record Polkastarter cites. That is more than eighteen times the price the same grade of the same card made almost exactly one year earlier, and it happened in a single anniversary weekend.
The whole story is a symbol that is not there
The difference between this Mewtwo and an ordinary one is printed on the PSA label itself. Regular copies of the card carry a rarity symbol in the lower corner, and this earliest Japanese printing does not, which is why the label reads No Rarity Symbol. Supply is where the price comes from. The Goldin lot text counted 9 PSA 10 copies among 590 graded copies when the lot was listed, and Polkastarter notes that a Fanatics Collect lot page showed 10 PSA 10 copies on October 26. The same lot text put the wider gap plainly, with PSA holding nearly 5,000 more standard Mewtwo cards than No Rarity Symbol copies as of October 1. When a famous character meets a population that small, the grade becomes the whole market.
Mewtwo is having a very expensive autumn
This sale did not happen in isolation. The second most valuable Mewtwo in the same ranking is the 2002 Legendary Collection reverse holo, and ComicBook reports its PSA 10 sold for 384,000 dollars at Fanatics Collect on October 18 after 23 bids, one week after a 360,000 dollar sale and months after a 72,000 dollar sale in June. Inside the Goldin auction itself, WorthPoint places the No Rarity Mewtwo among the top nine lots of the night, in a sale led by the 4,880,000 dollar Art Academy Mudkip in our October 27 report and the 3,080,500 dollar Trophy Pikachu, and just ahead of a 481,900 dollar Legendary Collection reverse holo Pikachu in PSA 10. Three different Mewtwo printings now sit above 298,000 dollars in confirmed sales, and none of them is the English Base Set card most collectors grew up with.
What this means for collectors
Our take is that this market is pricing the exact printing before the character. Mewtwo is on every one of these cards, yet the confirmed sales run from 102,000 dollars for a shadowless First Edition English copy in PSA 10 on October 11, a figure Polkastarter reports from Fanatics Collect, up to 603,900 dollars for the Japanese printing with no symbol. Language, print run, and population are doing the work, and a collector who prices a card by the Pokémon on the front will misread every one of these results. The caution matters just as much. A population of nine or ten PSA 10 copies means one motivated room can set a price that the next copy never sees again, and an eighteen fold jump in a year is a signal to verify a printing carefully, not a promise that every early Japanese card is about to follow it.
What to watch next
Watch for the next PSA 10 copy of this Mewtwo to reach a major house, because that sale will show whether 603,900 dollars is a level or a moment. Watch the PSA population as well, since each new PSA 10 copy added to a census this small changes the math for every owner. Polkastarter also flags two Gold Star Mewtwo results at Fanatics Collect from October 25, at 312,000 dollars and 264,000 dollars, that were still listed as unpaid on October 28. If the larger one is paid, the Gold Star card climbs the Mewtwo ranking and the autumn run for this one character gets even harder to explain by nostalgia alone.