Beedrill #17 — Base Set

Binder slot 17 belongs to Beedrill: Rare, Grass-type Pokémon with 80 HP. The credit on the card reads Ken Sugimori.

CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED

No completed public sale for Beedrill has been verified into our ledger yet. Until eight verified sales for a single printing-and-grade cell are recorded, there is nothing to take a median of, so this page prints no figure. 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
17 / 102
Rarity
Rare
Card type
Pokémon · Grass
HP
80
Holofoil
No
Illustrator
Illustrated by Ken Sugimori

11 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 80. Its binder neighbours are Zapdos (#16) and Dragonair (#18). Beedrill was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 17 of 102, which puts it in the first third of the binder.

Which printing you are holding

Which Beedrill you are holding is decided before grade is: the set ran in three printings. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. So Beedrill will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.

Walk the set

Zapdos (#16) before, Dragonair (#18) after.

Also in Base Set

Ivysaur, Koffing, Sandshrew, Item Finder, Pokémon Center and Charizard — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori is credited on 44 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

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