Rare HoloAquapolisH18/H1472003PSA 9

Nidoking H18/H147 · Aquapolis PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$900

Fair buy $500 · sell $9003.5× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$260
PSA 9this page$9003.5×
PSA 10$4,49917×

PSA 9 sales: 12; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 8; occasional
Confidence: High; 8 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 6d ago; one every ~9d

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

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $829 (range $631–$1,046, moderate confidence, from cert #141233292, checked Sept 2026). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range

PSA $829

Ours $900

PSA low $631PSA high $1,046

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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.

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

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Why $900? 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
2026-09-19	eBay · bestoffer	listing #60242931	$900
2026-09-14	eBay · auction	listing #161250010	$880
2026-09-13	eBay · fixedprice	listing #81356453	$725
2026-08-30	eBay · fixedprice	listing #141233292 sold before	$450
2026-08-15	eBay · bestoffer	listing #48341120	$725
2026-08-06	eBay · auction	listing #166183629	$667

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

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 77 sales across 46 months, May 2018 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$900▲ 218%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

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 $880 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 1254% since May 2018

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

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 12 resales — typically 284 days apart, with a median gross price change of +94.1%. That is 8 of the 64 distinct slabs behind 77 cert-linked sales at this grade — 12.5%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#141233292	Apr 2026 $691→Aug 2026 $450	3–6 months	-34.9%
#69362576	Mar 2023 $148→Aug 2026 $764	Over a year	+415.6%
#28726544	May 2018 $65→Jun 2026 $500	Over a year	+669.2%
#128057310	Jan 2026 $425→Apr 2026 $700	3–6 months	+64.7%
#87435312	Apr 2024 $151→Feb 2026 $440→Apr 2026 $500	Under 3 months	+231.7%
#102830100	Apr 2025 $181→Mar 2026 $500	6–12 months	+177.0%
#67436313	May 2025 $220→Nov 2025 $260	3–6 months	+18.2%
#43196169	Jul 2019 $33→May 2020 $125→Jan 2025 $175→May 2025 $170→Oct 2025 $330	3–6 months	+890.4%

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 12 PSA 9 sales with a median of $696; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Nidoking H18/H32 Aquapolis Holo Rare 2003 Pokémon PSA 9 English	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$1,200
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-19	60242931	$900
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-14	161250010	$880
Pokemon Nidoking Holo Aquapolis H18/147 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-13	—	$880
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-13	81356453	$725
2003 Pokemon - Nidoking Holo Rare E Reader Aquapolis H18/H32 - PSA 9 Mint! WOTC	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-12	—	$725
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-08-30	141233292	$450
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-15	48341120	$725
2003 Pokemon Nidoking Aquapolis Holo Rare #H18 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-14	—	$780
2003 Pokémon Aquapolis Nidoking H18/H147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-06	166183629	$667
2003 POKEMON AQUAPOLIS #H18 NIDOKING-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-05	—	$667
Nidoking - PSA 9 - Holo Aquapolis H18/H32 - Pokemon	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-04	—	$766
Pokemon Nidoking Holo Aquapolis H18/147 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-12	—	$610

1–8 of 13 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($696) 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

229

31.4% of 730 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

730

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 30 of 147. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Nidoking 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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$607

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3300%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$515

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$125

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 57 graded sales and a population of 1,890,520 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Nidoking and more from Aquapolis

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

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Citation

Nidoking (Aquapolis #H18) — PSA 9 market value USD $900, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/aquapolis/nidoking-h18/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Nidoking (Aquapolis #H18) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Nidoking from Aquapolis is worth approximately $900, with a fair range of $500 to $900 — about 3.5× the $260 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, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days.

How many PSA 9 Nidoking exist?

PSA has graded 229 copies of Nidoking (Aquapolis #H18) a 9, out of 730 submitted — 31.4% of the population, with 83 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Nidoking hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $125 grading fee is about $607; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3300% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Nidoking a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Nidoking has 12 recorded sales, 8 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.