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Blastoise — Base Set 2 #2, PSA 9

Rare HoloBase Set 22/1302000PSA 9

Blastoise 2/130 · Base Set 2 PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$850

Fair buy $765 · sell $850 (±10%)6.1× rawUpdated

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PSA 9 sales
17
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
11
sells regularly
Confidence
High
11 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
one every ~4d

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

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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.

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Why $850? 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
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#61348459sold before$750
2026-09-18eBay · fixedpricelisting#123531775$793
2026-09-14Fanatics · auction#55456712$480
2026-09-12eBay · fixedpricelisting#58948176$550
2026-09-07eBay · fixedpricelisting#87325247$650
2026-09-05eBay · bestofferlisting#94484074$800

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 4 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 321 sales across 36 quarters, Q3 2017 to Q4 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$850▲ 247%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

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$400
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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 $850 (Q4 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 1709% since Q3 2017

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

36 slabs have sold more than once, across 41 resales — typically 297 days apart, with a median gross price change of +35.9%. That is 36 of the 257 distinct slabs behind 324 cert-linked sales at this grade — 14%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#42503213May 2026 $430→Oct 2026 $8503–6 months+97.7%
#61348459Feb 2025 $300→Sept 2026 $750Over a year+150.0%
#41422690Aug 2019 $50→Aug 2026 $459Over a year+818.2%
#128222900Jun 2026 $455→Aug 2026 $520Under 3 months+14.3%
#66423678Sept 2025 $320→Jul 2026 $4356–12 months+35.9%
#42311258Aug 2020 $382→Oct 2020 $350→Jun 2026 $650Over a year+70.2%
#106316648Jun 2025 $350→Jun 2026 $4896–12 months+39.7%
#47266436Jan 2021 $400→Mar 2021 $550→Jun 2026 $465Over a year+16.3%
#47826000Sept 2020 $355→May 2026 $425Over a year+19.7%
#113850185Feb 2026 $316→May 2026 $3863–6 months+22.1%

Showing the 10 most recent of 36 slabs with a history. 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 17 PSA 9 sales with a median of $550; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 4 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

1–8 of 15 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($550) 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

1,096

9.1% of 12,050 graded

Graded higher

61

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

12,050

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 226 of 2,558 · TAG 6 of 188. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Blastoise 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

$104

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

940%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$622

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$88

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 168 graded sales and a population of 1,901,341 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Blastoise (Base Set 2 #2) — PSA 9 market value USD $850, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/base-set-2/blastoise-2/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Blastoise (Base Set 2 #2) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Blastoise from Base Set 2 is worth approximately $850, with a fair range of $765 to $850 — about 6.1× the $140 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 — 1 at auction, 2 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 4 days.

How many PSA 9 Blastoise exist?

PSA has graded 1,096 copies of Blastoise (Base Set 2 #2) a 9, out of 12,050 submitted — 9.1% of the population, with 61 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Blastoise hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $88 grading fee is about $104; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 940% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Blastoise a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Blastoise has 17 recorded sales, 11 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.