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A valuable item is an item which generally serves no practical purpose other than to be sold, usually for a high price.

In Generation II and IV, it is possible to buy some of these items for a discount (but only one of each per day) on Mondays in the morning in the Goldenrod Tunnel.

In Pokémon Black, some of these items are sold in Black City, albeit for prices much higher than they can be sold for. Often, these items later become exchangeable items. In Generation V, mulches and flutes became valuable items due to losing their function. While most of these items can be sold at Poké Marts, those introduced in Generation V can only be sold to certain item maniacs. Besides Big Nuggets, Pearl Strings, and Comet Shards, the player can also sell normal Nuggets, Pearls, Big Pearls, Stardust, and Star Pieces to the maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center, for double the price presented below.

Valuable items that can be sold in Poké Marts

	Name	Debut Gen.	Sell value	Associated maniac	Maniac value	Other effects
	Nugget	I	$5,000	Ore maniac	$10,000
	Big Mushroom	II	$2,500	Gourmet maniac	$5,000	Give one to the Move Reminder in Two Island to relearn one move for one Pokémon. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $10,000.
	Big Pearl	II	$4,000	Ore maniac	$7,500
	Brick Piece	II	$25	N/A
	Gold Leaf	II	$500	N/A
	Pearl	II	$1,000	Ore maniac	$1,400	In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $3,000.
	Silver Leaf	II	$500	N/A
	Slowpoke Tail	II	$4,900	N/A
	Star Piece	II	$6,000	Ore maniac	$9,800	In Pokémon Platinum, Exchange with Mr. Fuego for one of each color of shard. In Pokémon Black and White, it can be exchanged with a man in Anville Town for a PP Up on the weekends. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $14,000.
	Stardust	II	$1,500	Ore maniac	$2,000	In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $4,000.
	Tiny Mushroom	II	$250	Gourmet maniac	$500	Give two to the Move Reminder in Two Island to relearn one move for one Pokémon. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $2,000.
	Blue Shard	III	$500	Ore maniac	$3,000	Can be exchanged (alone or with other shards) for a Water StoneRSEORAS, a TM18 (Rain Dance)DP, BerriesHGSS, a Bottle CapSMUSUM, or given to a Move Tutor to teach one move to one PokémonPtB2W2.
	Green Shard	III	$500	Ore maniac	$3,000	Can be exchanged (alone or with other shards) for a Leaf StoneRSEORAS, a TM07 (Hail)DP, BerriesHGSS, a Bottle CapSMUSUM, or given to a Move Tutor to teach one move to one PokémonPtB2W2.
	Heart Scale	III	$50	N/A		In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald and all games from Generation IV onward, it can be given to a Move Reminder to teach one move to one Pokémon.
	Red Shard	III	$500	Ore maniac	$3,000	Can be exchanged (alone or with other shards) for a Fire StoneRSEORAS, a TM11 (Sunny Day)DP, BerriesHGSS, a Bottle CapSMUSUM, or given to a Move Tutor to teach one move to one PokémonPtB2W2.
	Shoal Salt	III	$10	Gourmet maniac	$7,000	Four can be given to the old man in the first room of Shoal Cave along with four Shoal Shells to obtain a Shell Bell.
	Shoal Shell	III	$10	Ore maniac	$7,000	Four can be given to the old man in the first room of Shoal Cave along with four Shoal Salt to obtain a Shell Bell.
	Yellow Shard	III	$500	Ore maniac	$3,000	Can be exchanged (alone or with other shards) for a Thunder StoneRSEORAS, a TM37 (Sandstorm)DP, BerriesHGSS, a Bottle CapSMUSUM, or given to a Move Tutor to teach one move to one PokémonPtB2W2.
	Rare Bone	IV	$2,500	Rare Bone maniac	$10,000	In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, counts as a Fossil towards Fossil count when dug up in the Underground. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $11,111.
	Balm Mushroom	V	$7,500	Gourmet maniac	$25,000	In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $25,000. Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games.
	Big Nugget	V	$20,000	Ore maniac	$30,000	Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games.
	Comet Shard	V	$12,500	Ore maniac	$60,000	In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $30,000. Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games.
	Pearl String	V	$10,000	Ore maniac	$25,000	In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the valuable item buyer in Stow-on-Side may randomly offer to buy one for $27,500. Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games.
	Pretty Feather	V	$500	N/A
	Relic Gold	V	$30,000	Billionaire maniac	$10,000	Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games, X, and Y.
	Strange Souvenir	VI	$1,500	N/A
	Beach Glass	VII	$400	N/A
	Chalky Stone	VII	$30	N/A
	Lone Earring	VII	$300	N/A
	Marble	VII	$150	N/A
	Polished Mud Ball	VII	$600	N/A
	Stretchy Spring	VII	$10	N/A
	Tropical Shell	VII	$1,000	N/A
All details are accurate to Generation VIII games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual items's page.

Mulches

Main article: Mulch

Flutes

Main article: Flute

Flutes were considered valuable items only in Black, White, Black 2, White 2, X and Y.

Valuable items that can only be sold to item maniacs

The following items have only been made available in Generation V for the express purpose of being sold to the Billionare maniac in Undella Town. Like many valuable items introduced in Generation V, they cannot be sold normally in Poké Marts.

	Name	Maniac value
	Relic Band	$100,000
	Relic Copper	$1,000
	Relic Crown	$300,000
	Relic Silver	$5,000
	Relic Statue	$200,000
	Relic Vase	$50,000

Artwork

Underground

This is artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground.

Star Piece	Rare Bone

Global Link

This is artwork of the items as seen on the Pokémon Global Link.

Nugget	Big Nugget	Pearl	Big Pearl	Pearl String
Shoal Shell	Shoal Salt	Stardust	Star Piece	Comet Shard
Tiny Mushroom	Big Mushroom	Balm Mushroom	Rare Bone	Pretty Wing
Relic Copper	Relic Silver	Relic Gold	Relic Vase	Relic Band
	Relic Statue	Relic Crown	Strange Souvenir

In the anime

In Reunion Battles In Nimbasa!, a Pretty Wing was included in the full set of wings that was promised as a prize for winning the Club Battle tournament. The set was eventually won by Iris, who later sent it to the Village of Dragons.

In Defending the Homeland!, Clemont mentioned having used Big Mushrooms as a part of the new food he had just made for the group.

In Treasure Hunt, Akala Style!, Mallow found multiple Tiny and Big Mushrooms and Sophocles found a Star Piece during a Stoutland Search treasure hunt set up for Ash and his classmates by Olivia. In the dub, the Star Piece was incorrectly referred to as a Comet Shard.

A Nugget appeared in Why Not Give Me a Z-Ring Sometime?, where a man was seen polishing it, only to have it stolen by an item-snatching Gengar nicknamed "Greedy Rapooh".

In A Recipe for Success!, Mallow got some dried-up Big Mushrooms from Oranguru to be used at Aina's Kitchen.

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  A Pretty Wing

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  Big Mushrooms

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  Tiny Mushrooms

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  A Star Piece

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  A Nugget

In the manga

A Star Piece in Magical Pokémon Journey

Magical Pokémon Journey

In Hazel VS Almond!, Almond won a Star Piece in a contest held by Grandpa, giving it to Hazel.

Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

In Ursaring Major, Team Rocket had cut off the tails of a herd of Slowpoke by the Slowpoke Well near Azalea Town, planning to sell them for profit. However, they were stopped by Silver and his Ursaring before they could do so.

A Big Pearl appeared in Crossing Crobat, where it was retrieved by Janine as a part of a test to check the security of the Goldenrod Museum.

Black & White arc

A Big Mushroom appeared in A Week to Go and Old Wounds, where Shoko gave it to one of her Patrat to hold while demonstrating her Marvelous Bridge Patrat Show to Black.

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc

A pair of Team Skull Grunts sold grilled Slowpoke Tails at the Iki Town festival, with one of said Tails appearing in The Party Crasher and Guzma the Destroyer.

Gallery

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  Slowpoke Tails

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  A Big Pearl

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  A Big Mushroom

Trivia

• The Slowpoke Tail is actually a useless item with no function past its monetary value. Although it is said that a Slowpoke will use its tail for fishing, a Slowpoke Tail has no effect on fishing at all, nor does it have any effect on Shellder despite the fact that contact with a Slowpoke's tail usually induces a spiral change.
• The first time that humans eating Pokémon is mentioned explicitly in the games is when a Team Rocket member mentions the SlowpokeTail's value as a delicacy. In Pokémon X and Y, Slowpoke Tail is one of the dishes served by Restaurant Le Yeah in Lumiose City.
• The Japanese name for nugget, きんのたま kin no tama, literally means "golden ball", which is also a colloquial term for testicles. The man offering his "golden ball" is a frequent joke amongst Japanese fans. As this pun would be lost in translation, as well as the fact that it would not go over well with parent groups, it was translated as "nugget of wisdom".
• The Rare Bone and Thick Club share the same Bag sprite.
• The Relic Gold and the Comet Shard are tied for the highest-selling items in the core series, selling for $30,000 each.

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.