2002 Pokémon Legendary Collection Snorlax Card PSA 10 Sells for $651,001 at Alt

A 2002 Pokémon Legendary Collection Snorlax Reverse Foil graded PSA 10 has sold for $651,001 at Alt, with the auction house calling it the most valuable Snorlax card ever sold. The card is Snorlax #64 from the 2002 Legendary Collection, one of the most distinctive early English Pokémon releases because of its reverse foil treatment. Unlike a conventional holographic card where the Pokémon artwork is the primary foil area, Legendary Collection reverse foils feature the explosive, firework-like foil pattern across most of the card’s surface. Alt’s example received a PSA Gem Mint 10 grade, putting it at the top of PSA’s grading scale.

Gem Mint copies are also scarce relative to the overall graded population. PSA currently lists just 21 examples of the Snorlax Reverse Foil in PSA 10, with more than 1,500 examples graded across all conditions. That scarcity at the highest grade has already produced some notable sales, but nothing close to the price reached at Alt. PSA records a PSA 10 example selling through Fanatics Collect for $120,000 in June 2026, meaning the new $651,001 result is more than five times that previous public sale.

According to PSA, Legendary Collection was released in 2002 as a 110-card set built from reprints of cards originally appearing in Base Set, Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket, along with a Mewtwo Black Star Promo. One of the set’s defining features was its reverse foil treatment, with each of the 110 cards also produced as a reverse foil version.

That background helps explain why the Snorlax sale is about more than the character alone. Legendary Collection reverse foils combine an early Wizards of the Coast-era release with a visually distinctive card treatment that can be difficult to preserve in top condition. For this particular Snorlax, the combination of the reverse foil design and a PSA 10 grade put one of the set’s popular Pokémon into a condition tier represented by only a small number of graded copies.

The Snorlax result came alongside another major Alt sale, where a 1999 Pokémon Base Set Prerelease Raichu graded PSA 5 sold for $699,625. Alt described that card as the most valuable Raichu ever sold, putting the two character records at a combined $1.35 million.

Those sales add to an unusually active stretch at the top of the Pokémon card market. In September, a PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator sold for $5 million at Heritage Auctions, while a Torchic Gold Star sold for $2.7 million. Goldin also completed a $550,000 private sale of a 1996 CoroCoro Jigglypuff promo.

At $651,001, the Legendary Collection Snorlax becomes another example of how high-end Pokémon demand is spreading beyond the hobby’s traditional trophy cards. In this case, the record claim rests with Alt, but the price itself shows how aggressively collectors are pursuing top-grade examples of distinctive early English releases.