The POP report is at 206 in a PSA 10 but I NEVER see them for sale. I’ve needed it for my collection for a dumb amount of time. And admittedly, I’m not the most persistent eBay searcher. But either someone is hoarding these puppies hardcore or the POP report is inaccurate to a great extent.
Any insight? I just want to know at this point. I’ll get the PSA 10 I need one day, but the clear disconnect between the POP report and the aftermarket availability is what really throws me.
This is all the ones that have hit ebay in the last couple months:
Not all of them are the version you’re looking for, but some people might not list it as such either.
That shows all four versions of Ancient Mew in a 10.
I am only talking about Ancient Mew I (Corrected).
www.psacard.com/auctionprices/tcg-cards/1999-pokemon-japanese-promo/ancient-mew/values/666082
According to this, there was one that was listed for 6ish days before getting sold for $150 (Best Offer) early May, and then an anomalous sale @ $1000 in early March.
Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately, for such a fine distinction, I’m not sure how much I trust the algorithmic data. I assume this isn’t manually input by someone with thorough knowledge of the cards, unless someone can tell me otherwise definitively? 
If you zoom in, they are the corrected versions:
Listing @ 150 - i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u7gAAOSwyW5a6Ow8/s-l1600.jpg
Listing @ 995 - i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jp0AAOSwMLBaqitv/s-l1600.jpg
I didn’t want to link to the listing since eBay is being weird with viewing sold items. And even if it’s not automated, I always look at the formal listing just in case
Seems good. $150 is a great deal. Haha.
It still seems that there is a large discrepancy for something so niche between the availability and the POP report, ya know? Which is more my topic of conversation. It’s not that these literally don’t exist. It’s that at over 200 PSA 10s, for something most collectors have no idea about, they don’t seem to occur often on the secondary market.
Yeah, it doesn’t really make sense to me either since it’s not really a go-to card to collect and retain, so either someone graded a bunch of them and forgot about them or someone hoarded them (I tried to see if the past PSA 10 sales were all sold to the same person but they weren’t).
Or someone reallllllllly likes the corrected ancient mew, lol (doubtful since that’d be a weird liking to have over the other forms of ancient mew).
When did they introduce the uncorrected label? Is it possible that most of the pop is just uncorrected versions graded a long time ago?
It may also be the case that they were graded and sold years ago and they have been lost or are just sitting in attics or something along with some Japanese CD promos
It would have been very early on since labels as far back as 02298308 were distinguished between “Ancient Mew I” and “Ancient Mew I Nintedo”.
I noticed that some of the PSA certs were real close to each other – indication that someone probably bulk graded. So I combed through all of the numbers in-between, and lo and behold…
@funmonkey54 if you know who base_set_sales on eBay is/was, they sold 2 Ancient Mews (01465698, 01465770) back in 6/21/2017 that were a part of a massive submission (148 Ancient Mew I’s of cert 01465698 - 01465846 that were immediately followed by 182 Ancient Mew IIs of cert 01465847 - 01466029). 1 of those mew I’s graded an 8, 46 of those graded a 10, and the rest (94) were graded 9s.
chrisp001 also auctioned off one of these mews (01465713) on 12/19/2016.
Is anyone able to approximately date how far back a cert of 01465698 would have been graded?
Edit: base_set_sales - They covered up the cert # but I’m willing to bet if someone scanned the barcode they’d show up as a number between 01465698 - 01466029. It wouldn’t hurt to ask them if they have anymore Ancient Mew I’s in PSA 10.
**Edit x2:**Now I’m just invested in seeing where these PSA 10 mews ended up – another one sold by base_set_sales (not ended – someone bought it according to watchcount) for $210 back in April 2017 (listed Jan 2017)
This is the sauce I came for.
I’ve never understood the variants and have never cared to. I sold one back in late 2017 though that I am pretty sure was the one you were looking for but it was marked as the “Nintedo” one. I believe it actually read “Nintendo” though.
I’m also quite sure I’ve submitted around 50 ancient mews and I’ve probably mislabeled them myself even. I’m pretty sure I’ve handled the “standard” one that is most common with nearly ever label variant on it in the dozens that have passed through my hands.
It reads “nintedo” i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mbsAAOSwqbxZ8-9Z/s-l1600.jpg
From what I’m gathering based on quantity of cards submitted + earliness of the error detection, this is a well-defined error that PSA most likely notices while grading, so misgrades are possible but improbable (? always room for doubt tho)
Mislabels are certainly a factor. There are mislabels for every type of card in Pokemon. A combination of both the submitter and/or PSA entering the incorrect information.
With that said, I have no clue how many of these are mislabels. From experience I would expect at least a handful were incorrectly submitted.
Agreed, but I’m inclined to think that it’s not a significant number.
I think people think that this card is often mislabeled (and I too had that assumption going into this) due to the small error, but the mislabeling here is probably more akin to mislabeling the reverse holo with the holo variant of a card or mislabeling the 1st edition of a card as unlimited edition and vice-versa.
For what it is worth, I submitted a mix of Movie, Mew I Error, and Mew II under the same name recently and they sorted them all out correctly in processing. So it’s safe to say someone there is keeping an eye out for it. Would be hard to imagine the majority are mislabels.
