Quality of (foreign) Base Set cards?

I’m looking to pick up a couple of packs which are going to be in a foreign language, and possibly I’m looking to grade some of the cards. Right now I’m most interested in obtaining more knowledge about the non-holos as the holos are a whole different beast.

I’ve had a hard time finding the rough odds of getting a Gem Mint card out of those packs, can anyone help me shed some light on it? Not surprisingly I’m aiming for Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmeleon, Wartortle and Ivysaur.

About the same as english base.

I have opened just about every language base set 1st edition in the past couple years and honestly I had better luck with the foreign sets than English. (English I opened only a few loose packs so that could explain some of it from handling/age wear that a sealed box pack wouldn’t see). Very small sample size, but I would say most of it was in the more consistent centering of foreign stuff from what I saw.

I have had a pretty high 10 rate in my foreign sets for the c/u starters and I had a pretty poor 10 rate for all the English stuff. I did still have some pack fresh foreign stuff that had no shot at a 10’s but it worked well for my binder sets.

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