Koffing #51 — Base Set
Koffing sits between Gastly and Machop in binder order. The fetched record gives it as a Common Grass-type Pokémon with 50 HP, drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita.
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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Koffing. A price appears here when at least eight verified sold lots for one exact printing and grade are in the ledger — that is the sample size the median is allowed to be computed from. No estimate, no range, no placeholder.
Identity fetched 2026-09-01 from the pokemontcg.io Base Set checklist; prices and populations are not in that record.
The record we hold
- Set
- Base Set (1999)
- Card number
- 51 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Grass
- HP
- 50
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
Koffing was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 51 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Gastly (#50) and Machop (#52). 39 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 50.
Which printing you are holding
Koffing was printed three times over, and the three do not trade alike. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. Priced, Koffing would carry one cell per printing — blending three print runs into one median states a price no one paid.
Walk the set
Gastly (#50) before, Machop (#52) after.
Also in Base Set
Starmie, Pokémon Center, Double Colorless Energy, Gyarados, Beedrill and Poliwhirl — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.
Also illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita is credited on 19 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.
Other Common Grass-type Pokémon cards
7 in the cohort; nearest by number: