Starting at the very beginning with Base Set Charizard, which still retains an eminently high value on the secondary market especially for its first edition and shadowless variants Charizard cards have long been incredibly popular and hugely valuable for collectors and fans alike
Gotta Catch Em All, Be the Very Best, A Heart So True, and more
Either way: that is a very long time
There weren't many Ancient Trait cards made into promos, so we mostly just saw holo versions of these in the actual expansions, which were using the XY era holofoil
A Dragon/Flying-type, and Hoenn's psuedo-legendary Dragon, Salamence followed in Dragonite's footsteps and kickstarted the trend of Dragon-types becoming more common, and did so while looking significantly more impressive than its predecessor