cardtrack
Upgrade
Sign in
M Ampharos-EX — Ancient Origins #28, PSA 9

Rare Holo EXAncient Origins28/982015PSA 9

M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · Ancient Origins PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$46

Fair buy $39 · sell $532.5× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$18
  • PSA 9this page$462.5×
  • PSA 10$1508.3×
PSA 9 sales
9
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
6
occasional
Confidence
Medium
6 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
8d ago
one every ~13d
ViewingPSA 9Raw / ungraded →PSA 10 →

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

Set a price alert

We'll email you when this card's value crosses your target.

Alert me when the priceNo password needed — we'll set up your free account.

PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.

Affiliate links — we may earn a commission. Prices shown across this page are sold-based, not sponsored placements.

Buy from here
TCGplayer$19ebayFanatics
BuyTCGplayer$19ebayFanatics

Why $46? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-07eBay · bestofferlisting#128797934$25
2026-08-14eBay · fixedpricelisting#143374380$38
2026-08-01eBay · fixedpricelisting#143680774$50
2026-08-01eBay · auctionlisting#132613858$75
2026-07-25eBay · auctionlisting#73082628sold before$33
2026-06-17eBay · fixedpricelisting#148215587$50

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 13 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 46 sales across 24 months, Jul 2020 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$46▲ 130%over 5 years

2021-09-01 → 2026-09-21

$20
$30
$40
$50
Sept 20212023202420252026Sept 2026Raw NM2021-09-01 · $202021-10-01 · $212021-11-01 · $212021-12-01 · $212022-01-01 · $222022-02-01 · $242022-03-01 · $252022-04-01 · $252022-05-01 · $252022-06-01 · $252022-07-01 · $252022-08-01 · $252022-09-01 · $252022-10-01 · $202022-11-01 · $202022-12-01 · $252023-01-01 · $252023-02-01 · $252023-03-01 · $252023-04-01 · $202023-05-01 · $202023-06-01 · $202023-07-01 · $202023-08-01 · $202023-09-01 · $202023-10-01 · $202023-11-01 · $202023-12-01 · $252024-01-01 · $212024-02-01 · $212024-03-01 · $212024-04-01 · $212024-05-01 · $192024-06-01 · $192024-07-01 · $192024-08-01 · $182024-09-01 · $192024-10-01 · $192024-11-01 · $192024-12-01 · $232025-01-01 · $232025-02-01 · $252025-03-01 · $262025-04-01 · $302025-05-01 · $412025-06-01 · $412025-07-01 · $442025-08-01 · $462025-09-01 · $462025-10-01 · $502025-11-01 · $462025-12-01 · $482026-01-01 · $522026-02-01 · $412026-03-01 · $412026-04-01 · $402026-05-01 · $392026-07-01 · $372026-07-14 · $492026-07-22 · $502026-07-23 · $502026-07-24 · $502026-07-25 · $352026-07-26 · $352026-07-27 · $352026-07-28 · $352026-07-29 · $352026-07-30 · $352026-07-31 · $352026-08-01 · $502026-08-02 · $502026-08-03 · $502026-08-04 · $502026-08-05 · $502026-08-06 · $502026-08-07 · $502026-08-08 · $502026-08-09 · $502026-08-10 · $502026-08-11 · $502026-08-12 · $502026-08-13 · $502026-08-14 · $392026-08-15 · $392026-08-16 · $392026-08-17 · $392026-08-18 · $392026-08-19 · $392026-08-20 · $382026-08-21 · $382026-08-22 · $382026-08-23 · $382026-08-25 · $382026-08-26 · $382026-08-27 · $382026-08-29 · $382026-08-30 · $382026-08-31 · $382026-09-01 · $382026-09-02 · $422026-09-03 · $422026-09-04 · $422026-09-05 · $422026-09-06 · $422026-09-07 · $422026-09-08 · $422026-09-09 · $382026-09-10 · $382026-09-11 · $382026-09-12 · $382026-09-13 · $382026-09-14 · $382026-09-15 · $382026-09-16 · $462026-09-17 · $462026-09-18 · $462026-09-19 · $462026-09-20 · $462026-09-21 · $46
The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above.

Latest $25 (Sep 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 0% since Jul 2020

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

3 slabs have sold more than once, across 3 resales. That is 3 of the 41 distinct slabs behind 47 cert-linked sales at this grade — 7.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#73082628Jun 2026 $31→Jul 2026 $33Under 3 months+6.5%
#89552318May 2024 $19→May 2026 $37Over a year+100.0%
#108474541Apr 2025 $35→Feb 2026 $306–12 months-14.3%

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 9 PSA 9 sales with a median of $36; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
M Ampharos EX 28/98 Holo Pokémon 2015 Ancient Origins PSA 9 MINTPSA 9eBay2026-09-13—$45.99
2015 Pokémon Ancient Origins M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-09-07128797934$25.00
Pokemon PSA 9 2015 XY Ancient Origins M Ampharos EX 28/98 Holo Full ArtPSA 9eBay2026-09-06—$35.00
2015 Pokémon Ancient Origins M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-08-14143374380$37.50
2015 Pokémon Ancient Origins M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-08-01132613858$75.25
2015 Pokémon Ancient Origins M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-08-01143680774$50.00
2015 Pokemon XY Ancient Origins M Ampharos Ex #28 PSA 9 ES6PSA 9eBay2026-07-31—$75.25
2015 Pokémon Ancient Origins M Ampharos-EX 28/98 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-07-2573082628$33.00

1–8 of 12 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($36) sits below the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

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

247

32.6% of 758 graded

Graded higher

310

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

758

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 38 of 159 · BGS 5 of 16. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is M Ampharos-EX 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

$-6

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3200%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-43

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$71

tier fee + shipping

Trader

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.

Trader plan and above →
  • 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 28 graded sales and a population of 1,306,596 · fees as of 2026-09-19.

More M Ampharos-EX and more from Ancient Origins

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Cite this PSA 9 pricefree with attribution

Citation

M Ampharos-EX (Ancient Origins #28) — PSA 9 market value USD $46, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/ancient-origins/m-ampharos-ex-28/psa-9

Embed this on your site

<iframe src="https://cardtrack.com/embed/card?id=xy7-28" width="100%" height="160" style="border:0;max-width:460px" title="M Ampharos-EX PSA 9 price — CardTrack" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p style="font:12px system-ui">Source: <a href="https://cardtrack.com">CardTrack</a></p>

Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 M Ampharos-EX (Ancient Origins #28) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint M Ampharos-EX from Ancient Origins is worth approximately $46, with a fair range of $39 to $53 — about 2.5× the $18 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 13 days.

How many PSA 9 M Ampharos-EX exist?

PSA has graded 247 copies of M Ampharos-EX (Ancient Origins #28) a 9, out of 758 submitted — 32.6% of the population, with 310 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my M Ampharos-EX hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $-6; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3200% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 M Ampharos-EX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 M Ampharos-EX has 9 recorded sales, 6 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.