Applin is the first character in this series where most of the cards have no price at all. Nineteen Applin cards sit in the Chinese-only sets and only seven carry a tracked PSA 10 value — and six of the twelve that do not come from a single volume, Gem Pack Vol. 6.
The shape underneath is familiar: one commissioned card carries the character. The art rare of Vol. 6 is tracked at $556, which is 68 percent of everything Applin is worth and 8.3 times the card below it. What is new here is what the unpriced cards say about how a volume matures. Vol. 6 prints a complete seven-card Applin group, and exactly one of those seven cards has traded graded often enough to carry a price.
How this list was built
Three rules, applied in this order.
- The card has to sit in a Chinese-only set. Every card below carries a set code ending in C — CBB5C, CBB6C and csv8C. That trailing letter marks a Simplified Chinese print run, and it is the dependable way to tell a Chinese-only card from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese. Reading a Chinese set code from end to end covers the whole system.
- The card has to have a tracked PSA 10 value. Nineteen Applin cards exist across these sets and seven have a PSA 10 price on record. Twelve do not, and they include six of the seven cards in the Vol. 6 group — #1901 to #1906, a volume recent enough that only its art rare has a graded sold record. A card with no price cannot be ranked, so those twelve are described in the tables below rather than listed.
- The card has to be a Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope.
One exclusion applies here as it does to every character ranking we publish. Promo printings of Applin exist in Chinese and they are not on this list. Promo numbering is shared across the Chinese branches — the same promo number appears in Traditional Chinese product as well — so a promo number on its own cannot establish which branch a card came from. Everything below sits inside a numbered set whose code ends in C, which is unambiguous.
The five, ranked
5. Applin #2003 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $38
Raw $1.50 · grade 9 $12.36
The lowest-numbered priced card of the Vol. 5 group, and the last entry here. Its raw price of $1.50 is the second lowest of the seven priced Applin cards, and raw copies become $38 in a PSA 10 holder — a multiple of 25.6.
4. Applin #2006 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $40
Raw $1.85 · grade 9 $12.66
One of five priced cards from the Vol. 5 group, and the closest card in the ranking to the one above it: $0.65 separates this from #2004 in graded value, while their raw prices differ by 27 cents. Both are ordinary foils from the same seven-number ladder, and neither carries the commissioned artwork of the group.
3. Applin #2004 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $40
Raw $2.12 · grade 9 $12.82
The third of five Vol. 5 cards on this list, and one of four separated by less than two dollars. Its raw price of $2.12 is the highest of the four Vol. 5 foils below the art rare — a reminder that inside one Gem Pack group the raw prices and the graded values do not run in the same order.
2. Applin #2007 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $67
Raw $7.79 · grade 9 $20.40
The art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 5, and the highest Applin card that is not from Vol. 6. Its raw price of $7.79 is more than three and a half times the raw price of the next Applin card, and its graded value is 8.6 times its raw — the second narrowest multiple of the seven. The step from here to the card above it is $489, the widest gap below the top of the ranking.
1. Applin #1907 — Gem Pack Vol. 6 (CBB6C) — $556
Raw $105.00 · grade 9 $148.59
The commissioned art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 6, the last number in its group, and the only card in that group with a price on record. It holds 68 percent of everything the character is worth, and its raw price of $105.00 alone is nearly seven times the combined raw price of the other six priced cards. We hold this card in PSA 10: the Vol. 6 Applin listing is here.
What the ranking shows
Two features stand out, and only one of them is about money. The art rare at the top holds 68 percent of the character’s value on one card; and twelve of the nineteen Applin cards have no price at all, which is the largest unpriced share of any character ranked here.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 – $1,500 — ranked 1 | 1 | $556 | 68.4% |
| $50 – $70 — ranked 2 | 1 | $67 | 8.3% |
| $36 – $50 — ranked 3 to 6 | 4 | $155 | 19.1% |
| Under $36 — ranked 7 | 1 | $35 | 4.3% |
| Every priced Applin card | 7 | $813 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
Vol. 6 prints a complete seven-card Applin group, and one of those cards has a price. The group runs #1901 to #1907 with the art rare at the top, which is the structure every Gem Pack group uses. Only #1907 has a graded sold record. Of the other six, four are tracked with a raw price between $1.67 and $3.50 and no graded value at all, and two have no price on either side. A volume that recent has not yet built a graded market underneath its art rare.
Two consecutive volumes print identical Applin groups and behave nothing alike. Gem Pack Vol. 5 supplies seven Applin cards and five of them are priced. Gem Pack Vol. 6 also supplies seven, and one of them is priced. The two groups sit beside each other in the checklist and were printed within a year of one another, so the difference between them is not about the cards — it is about how much graded product has changed hands so far. Why the newest Simplified Chinese print runs price slowly covers that lag across the whole catalogue. The volume-by-volume guide covers the group structure both volumes share.
Where Applin is printed
| Product | Set code | Applin cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 5 | CBB5C | 7 |
| Gem Pack Vol. 6 | CBB6C | 7 |
| Brilliant Fantasy | csv8C | 2 |
| CS4bC | CS4bC | 1 |
| Chasing Glory Together | csv10C | 1 |
| CSV9C | CSV9C | 1 |
| Total | 19 |
Two complete Gem Pack groups account for fourteen of the nineteen Applin cards, or 74 percent of everything printed under the name. The remaining five are single checklist appearances: two in Brilliant Fantasy and one each in CS4bC, Chasing Glory Together and CSV9C. Only one of those five is priced — the Brilliant Fantasy print at #23 — and it sits in the bottom third of the ranking.
Applin is a Paldea-generation Pokémon and has no Collect 151 entry, which is why the checklist here leans so heavily on Gem Pack groups. The characters in this series that belong to the original 151 — Gengar and Cubone among them — pick up a second print line in Collect 151 that a Paldea Pokémon never receives. What Applin gets instead is a group in each of two consecutive volumes, which is how a character can reach nineteen cards with only seven of them priced.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: the Vol. 6 art rare at #1907, at $556. It is the only priced card in its group and holds 68 percent of the character’s value by itself. The Vol. 6 listing is here.
- The highest card outside Vol. 6: the Vol. 5 art rare at #2007, at $67, with a raw price of $7.79 behind it — the second highest raw price of any Applin card.
- If you want the group rather than the chase: the four Vol. 5 foils between #2003 and #2006 are separated by $1.68 in graded value and cost $1.00 to $2.12 raw each.
- The lowest-priced entry onto this list: the Vol. 5 card at #2003, at $38, with raw copies at $1.50.
Frequently asked questions
How many Applin cards are there in Simplified Chinese?
Nineteen, across six products: seven in Gem Pack Vol. 5, seven in Gem Pack Vol. 6, two in Brilliant Fantasy and one each in CS4bC, Chasing Glory Together and CSV9C. Only seven of the nineteen carry a tracked PSA 10 value.
What is the most valuable Applin card in Simplified Chinese?
The art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 6 at #1907, tracked at $556 as a PSA 10 and $105.00 raw. It is the only card in that group with a price on record, and it holds 68 percent of the character’s combined value.
Why do twelve Applin cards have no price?
Because they come from print runs that have not built a graded sold record yet. Gem Pack Vol. 6 accounts for six of the twelve, including every number in its Applin group except the art rare. The other six are the two unpriced numbers at the bottom of the Vol. 5 group, one Brilliant Fantasy print, one CS4bC print, one Chasing Glory Together print and a CSV9C Poke Ball foil. PriceCharting carries raw prices for several of them but no PSA 10 value, and a raw price is not a substitute for a graded one.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On the Vol. 5 cards, clearly yes: raw prices between $1.00 and $7.79 turn into graded values between $35 and $67, multiples of 8.6 to 34.8. The art rare at #1907 is the exception — it multiplies 5.3 times, because its raw price of $105.00 already carries most of the $556. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
Does Applin appear in Collect 151?
No. Collect 151 is built around the first 151 Pokémon, and Applin was introduced in the Paldea generation, so it has no entry in that set. Its Chinese-only checklist runs through the two Gem Pack volumes, Brilliant Fantasy, CS4bC, Chasing Glory Together and CSV9C.
Other character rankings
Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Gengar, Ceruledge, Floragato, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, and the nine forms of the Eevee family — Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C), Gem Pack Vol. 6 (CBB6C), Brilliant Fantasy (csv8C), CS4bC, Chasing Glory Together (csv10C) and CSV9C. PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Applin #1907 (Gem Pack Vol. 6); Applin #2007, #2003, #2004, #2005, #2006 (Gem Pack Vol. 5); Applin #23 (Brilliant Fantasy).
- CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: what is in each volume, on group structure and treatment counts.
- CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.