Illustration Rare151181/1652023PSA 9

Dragonair 181/165 · 151 PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$49

Fair buy $37 · sell $501.1× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$45
PSA 9this page$491.1×
PSA 10$2555.7×

PSA 9 sales: 85; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 75; sells often
Confidence: High; 75 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~1d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of today. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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Why $49? Cert-verified PSA 9 sales

Each sale is tied by PSA to a specific graded slab — click the cert to check the exact card, grade and serial on psacard.com. Outliers against the grade’s own median are dropped; qualified slabs are listed separately beneath.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #144280870	$42
2026-09-26	eBay · fixedprice	listing #109153200	$40
2026-09-25	eBay · auction	listing #164011998	$42
2026-09-24	eBay · auction	listing #102707402	$51
2026-09-23	eBay · auction	listing #139050586	$44
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #150770747	$51

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 155 sales across 4 months, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$49▲ 71%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above. The line is the running level, so a single unusually cheap or dear sale does not spike it. Hover any day for its price on the line.

Latest $48 (Sep 2026, 39 sales) · ▼ 9% since Jun 2026

Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 151 distinct slabs behind 155 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#151480527	Jul 2026 $40→Sept 2026 $48	Under 3 months	+21.2%

A cert reappearing shows the same physical slab sold again — it identifies no buyer or seller. Gross change is price to price; fees, shipping and the grading cost are not in it.

Every PSA 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 85 PSA 9 sales with a median of $49; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 9 PSA 9 sales, 5 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-10-03	—	$40.00
Pokemon SV 151 Dragonair 181/165 Illustration Rare Holo PSA 9 ENGLISH MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$51.00
Dragonair 181/165 Sv: Scarlet & Violet 151 Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$49.99
Pokémon Dragonair 181/165 Scarlet & Violet 151 Illustration Rare PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$47.98
2023 Pokemon SV 151 Dragonair Illustration Rare #181/165 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$45.00
Dragonair #181 - 2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 - Holo PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$43.00
Dragonair 181/165 SV Scarlet & Violet 151 Illustration Rare Holo ENG 2023 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$49.00
2023 Pokemon Mew En Illustration Rare #181 Dragonair PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$41.00
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$44.40
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-26	109153200	$40.00
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	144280870	$42.00
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-25	164011998	$42.00
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-24	102707402	$51.00
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-23	139050586	$44.00
2023 Pokémon 151 Dragonair 181/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	150770747	$51.00
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-10	—	$45.60
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-27	—	$43.20
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-06	—	$40.80
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-06	—	$39.60
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-22	—	$42.00
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-22	—	$58.80
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet 151 IR Dragonair #181 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-20	—	$44.40

1–8 of 22 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

How many PSA 9 copies exist

PSA’s cumulative census for this card. It counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the rate a fresh submission should expect.

PSA 9 population

8,827

54.5% of 16,190 graded

Graded higher

4,758

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

16,190

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 281 of 557. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Dragonair worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 9 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-17

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5430%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-77

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

tier fee + shipping

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Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

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PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 244 graded sales and a population of 5,126,187 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Dragonair (151 #181) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Dragonair from 151 is worth approximately $49, with a fair range of $37 to $50 — about 1.1× the $45 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 3 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Dragonair exist?

PSA has graded 8,827 copies of Dragonair (151 #181) a 9, out of 16,190 submitted — 54.5% of the population, with 4,758 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Dragonair hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-17; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5430% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Dragonair a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Dragonair has 85 recorded sales, 75 of them in the last 90 days, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.