GIOVANNI'S PERSIAN #8/132 - GYM CHALLENGE
- Set
- Pokemon Gym Challenge (Gym series)
- Number
- 8/132
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 1 (Colorless)
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- (2000-10-16)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $249.99 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 5 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $50.00 machine
RIP IT
Giovanni's Persian is in the $50.00 machine right now - CGC 9 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Giovanni's Persian is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Gym Challenge, card 8 of 132, released October 16, 2000 in the Gym series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.
VALUE
What is Giovanni's Persian #8 from Gym Challenge worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Giovanni's Persian #8 (Gym Challenge) carries a market reference of $249.99 USD for the 1stEditionHolofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $100.05 (CGC 9).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | CGC | 9 | $89.99 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 8 | $81.82 |
| 2026-06-24 | CGC | 8.5 | $137.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 6 | $196.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 7 | $81.00 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Giovanni's Persian #8?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Gym Challenge boosters. With 20 cards sharing that slot, pulling Giovanni's Persian specifically works out to roughly 1 in 60 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $50.00 machine right now, 1 of 1633 loaded cards is this card - about 0.06% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 20 eligible cards.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| CGC | 9 | 1 |
| CGC | 8.5 | 1 |
| PSA | 8 | 2 |
| PSA | 7 | 1 |
| PSA | 6 | 1 |
| Total | 6 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Giovanni's Persian #8 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Giovanni's Persian is loaded in the $50.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 1 of 1633 loaded cards (0.06% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.