Meowth’s value in the Chinese-only sets is one art rare and a flat shelf of foils. The commissioned card from Gem Pack Vol. 3 is tracked at $223 as a PSA 10, and the eight cards below it are worth $305 between them — but the card that finishes third is not from that group at all. It is a Kanto print from Collect 151.
Seven of Meowth’s nine priced cards belong to the Vol. 3 group, #201 to #207, and the six foils below the art rare sit inside a nine-dollar window. The exception sits at $38.16 and reaches third place. Meowth is one of the original 151 Pokémon, which is why a Collect 151 print exists to break the run at all; the later-generation characters in this series have no entry in that set.
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 — CBB3C, 151C 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. Twelve Meowth cards exist across these sets and nine have a PSA 10 price on record. The three that do not are the reverse holo and the Master Ball reverse holo of Collect 151 #52, and the Chasing Glory Together print at csv10C #169, which is a Team Rocket’s Meowth card — none of them has a graded sold record yet, and a card with no price cannot be ranked.
- 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 Meowth 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. Meowth [Stars] #203 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $37
Raw $1.65 · grade 9 $12.34
The stars pattern, and the lowest-priced card in this top five. Raw copies at $1.65 becoming $37 in a PSA 10 holder is a multiple of 22.7, and its grade 9 record of $12.34 is 33 percent of the PSA 10 value — the shape almost every set-checklist foil in this series has.
4. Meowth #201 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $37.8
Raw $1.75 · grade 9 $12.49
The base print, the lowest number in the Vol. 3 group, and the card immediately above the stars pattern. That #201 finishes ahead of four higher-numbered treatments is the pattern this series keeps running into: inside one Gem Pack group, neither the number nor the treatment carries price information. The volume-by-volume guide sets out how a group like that is built.
3. Meowth #52 — Collect 151 (151C) — $38.2
Raw $1.97 · grade 9 $12.97
The only card in this top five that is not from a Gem Pack group, and the single card that splits the group in the ranking. Collect 151 prints three treatments of number 52 — plain, reverse holo and Master Ball reverse holo — and only the plain print has traded enough to be priced. At $38.16 it edges the two Gem Pack foils directly beneath it by less than a dollar, which is a narrow margin to carry a whole product’s worth of difference.
2. Meowth [Stamped] #206 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $46
Raw $3.50 · grade 9 $14.97
The stamped foil, the highest of the six ordinary treatments, and the only card below the art rare to clear the forty-dollar shelf the others sit on. Its raw price of $3.50 is the second highest of the nine priced Meowth cards, so part of the premium is visible before grading — though the raw-to-PSA-10 multiple of 13.1 is the narrowest of the whole group.
1. Meowth #207 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $223
Raw $73.90 · grade 9 $95.00
The commissioned art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 3, the last number in its group, and the only Meowth card in the language above $46. It holds 42 percent of the character’s total on one card, and its raw price of $73.90 is five times the combined raw price of the other eight. We hold this card in PSA 10: the Vol. 3 Meowth listing is here.
What the ranking shows
Meowth splits the way a Kanto character does in this catalogue: a Gem Pack group supplies the volume, and a Collect 151 print supplies the one card that breaks it. Nine Meowth cards are priced, and the top one holds 42 percent of the graded value.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 – $250 — ranked 1 | 1 | $223 | 42.2% |
| $45 – $50 — ranked 2 | 1 | $46 | 8.7% |
| $36 – $40 — ranked 3 to 8 | 6 | $224 | 42.5% |
| Under $36 — ranked 9 | 1 | $35 | 6.7% |
| Every priced Meowth card | 9 | $527 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
The Vol. 3 group prints seven consecutive numbers, all seven are priced, and the order has nothing to do with the numbering. #201 to #207 is one Gem Pack group — the base print, a Poké Ball foil, the stars pattern, the rotary pattern, the Master Ball foil, the stamped foil and the art rare at the top. Ranked by value they run #207, #206, #201, #203, #205, #202, #204, so the art rare at the highest number is first while the rotary pattern at #204 finishes last, behind three cards with lower numbers than it.
One foil in the group has almost no grade 9 market. The Master Ball foil at #205 is tracked at $1.87 raw and $5.50 in a grade 9 holder — a multiple of 2.9, where the four numbered foils beside it each multiply seven times or more into grade 9. Its PSA 10 value of $37.09 sits in line with its neighbours, so the top grade is not the anomaly; the middle grade is. That is the shape of a card whose graded sales are concentrated almost entirely in PSA 10, with barely any grade 9 transactions to price against.
Where Meowth is printed
| Product | Set code | Meowth cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 3 | CBB3C | 7 |
| Collect 151 | 151C | 3 |
| Brilliant Fantasy | csv8C | 1 |
| Chasing Glory Together | csv10C | 1 |
| Total | 12 |
Gem Pack Vol. 3 supplies seven of the twelve Meowth cards and $454 of the $527 total, because the single expensive card is inside that group. Collect 151 prints three treatments of one number and only the plain one is priced. The Brilliant Fantasy print at csv8C #162 is priced at $35.16 and the Chasing Glory Together card — a Team Rocket’s Meowth — is tracked without a value, so the two cards that fill out the checklist outside the two main products contribute $35 between them.
If the goal is the group rather than the single card, completing a Simplified Chinese set sets out what a full Vol. 3 run involves.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: the Vol. 3 art rare at #207, at $223. It is the only Meowth card in the language above $46 and the only commissioned artwork under the name. The Vol. 3 listing is here.
- The highest foil: the stamped foil at #206, at $46 — the only card below the art rare outside the thirty-six to forty dollar shelf.
- The Kanto print: Collect 151 #52, at $38.2. It is the only card in this top five that is not from a Gem Pack group.
- If you want the whole group: the six Vol. 3 foils sit inside a nine-dollar window, so the ladder below the art rare can be assembled in one go for barely more than the art rare’s raw price.
Frequently asked questions
How many Meowth cards are there in Simplified Chinese?
Twelve, across four products: seven in the Gem Pack Vol. 3 group, three treatments of a single number in Collect 151, one Brilliant Fantasy print and one Chasing Glory Together print. Nine of the twelve carry a tracked PSA 10 value.
What is the most valuable Meowth card in Simplified Chinese?
The art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 3 at #207, tracked at $223 as a PSA 10 and $73.90 raw. It is the only Meowth card in these sets above $46, and it holds 42 percent of the character’s combined value on one card.
Why is the Collect 151 Meowth card in the top three?
Because Collect 151 cards are priced generously relative to Gem Pack foils. The seven Meowth cards in the Vol. 3 group sit between $36.68 and $45.70, and a Collect 151 plain print that has traded enough to be priced lands at $38.16 — above five of them. Meowth is one of the original 151 Pokémon, so it is printed in that set at all; characters from later generations have no Collect 151 entry and therefore no card that can break a Gem Pack run.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On eight of the nine priced cards, yes: raw prices sit between $1.10 and $3.50 while graded values run from $35 to $46, multiples of 13 to 32. The exception is the art rare at #207, which multiplies only 3.0 times because its raw price of $73.90 already carries most of the $223. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
Do the Collect 151 Meowth cards come in more than one treatment?
Yes. Number 52 in Collect 151 exists as a plain card, a reverse holo and a Master Ball reverse holo. Only the plain print has traded enough to have a price attached, at $38.2; the other two are tracked without a value. The series guide explains the two reverse holo patterns.
Other character rankings
Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — 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. 3 (CBB3C), Collect 151 (151C) and Brilliant Fantasy (csv8C). PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Meowth #201, [Pokeball] #202, [Stars] #203, [Rotary] #204, [Masterball] #205, [Stamped] #206 and #207 (Gem Pack Vol. 3); Meowth #52 (Collect 151).
- 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.