Pinsir

Pinsir is card 25 of 64 in Jungle, released in June 1999, a Rare. It is a Basic Grass-type with 60 HP.

As a Basic Pokémon, Pinsir needs no prior evolution to put into play, which made it a practical card in the era's decks.

Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. Himeno is one of the most-recognized vintage illustrators, with a softer, more textured style that shows up across the Jungle and Neo runs.

The card's flavor text gives Pinsir a line of lore: "If it fails to crush the victim in its pincers, it will swing its victim around and toss it hard."

A Bug-type stag beetle with prominent pincers. Jungle holo Pinsir is one of the more aggressive-looking Jungle holos and has steady collector demand.

Pinsir is a non-holo Rare. In Jungle, value concentrates in the holo rares, so a Pinsir trades modestly, though a clean, well-centered 1st Edition copy in PSA 10 is scarcer than the print run suggests and carries a real premium. Check the live price above for the figure by grade.

Jungle shipped in 1st Edition and Unlimited, with no Shadowless print. The Edition 1 stamp under the artwork separates the scarcer 1st Edition Pinsir from the Unlimited copy. The set also has the famous No Symbol error from its first print run, which adds a premium when the lower-right set symbol is missing.

Non-holo Rares like Pinsir are easier on surface but no kinder on centering. Wizards-era cards were less protected than the holos, so high-grade Pinsir survivors can be scarcer than expected, with edge whitening the usual cap.

For Pinsir, check centering by eye, edge whitening on all four sides, and surface under angled light. Non-holo Rares from this era are cheap enough that a PSA 10 submission on a clean Pinsir can make sense.