Rare HoloBase Set 218/1302000PSA 9

Venusaur 18/130 · Base Set 2 PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$330

Fair buy $281 · sell $3793.3× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$100
PSA 9this page$3303.3×
PSA 10$5,00050×

PSA 9 sales: 19; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 13; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 13 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~4d

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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: $361 (range $298–$433, moderate confidence, from cert #23108109, 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 $361

Ours $330

PSA low $298PSA high $433

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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 $330? 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
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #49894341	$360
2026-09-24	eBay · auction	listing #66425600	$335
2026-09-20	eBay · auction	listing #52327339	$330
2026-09-08	eBay · auction	listing #23108109	$320
2026-09-05	eBay · bestoffer	listing #62048524	$406
2026-08-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #58689673	$350

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 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 — 240 sales across 20 quarters, Q3 2021 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$330▲ 66%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 $338 (Q3 2026, 20 sales) · ▲ 48% since Q3 2021

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

20 slabs have sold more than once, across 21 resales — typically 296 days apart, with a median gross price change of +39.3%. That is 20 of the 204 distinct slabs behind 240 cert-linked sales at this grade — 9.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#95070955	Sept 2025 $195→Jul 2026 $405	6–12 months	+107.7%
#75893384	Sept 2025 $210→Jun 2026 $395	6–12 months	+88.1%
#104915671	Dec 2025 $188→May 2026 $421	3–6 months	+123.8%
#57182568	Jan 2025 $150→Apr 2026 $330	Over a year	+120.0%
#62505915	Jan 2022 $183→Feb 2026 $210	Over a year	+14.8%
#43075582	Jan 2023 $108→Jan 2026 $300	Over a year	+179.1%
#27235964	Sept 2021 $180→Jan 2026 $250	Over a year	+39.3%
#79729787	Dec 2024 $110→Jan 2026 $200	Over a year	+81.8%
#101988647	Jun 2025 $180→Aug 2025 $225→Dec 2025 $198	3–6 months	+10.0%
#61791294	Sept 2022 $155→Nov 2025 $129	Over a year	-16.9%

Showing the 10 most recent of 20 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 19 PSA 9 sales with a median of $359; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2000 POKEMON GAME VENUSAUR #18 BASE 2 HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-03	—	$400
Pokemon Venusaur #18 PSA 9 Base Set 2 Rare Holo Slab	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$425
2000 Pokemon Base Set 2 Holo Venusaur #18 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-10-01	—	$359
2000 Pokemon Venusaur Base Set 2 Rare Holo #18 PSA 9 MINT *SWIRL bottom	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$425
2000 Pokemon Venusaur Base Set 2 Rare Holo #18 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$365
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-24	66425600	$335
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	49894341	$360
POKEMON VENUSAUR 2000 GAME BASE II #18 HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-23	—	$335
2000 VENUSAUR HOLO BASE SET 2 PSA 9 MINT #18/130 POKEMON CARD GAME TCG WOTC	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-23	—	$360
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-20	52327339	$330
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-08	23108109	$320
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-05	62048524	$406
2000 Pokémon Base Set 2 Venusaur 18/130 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-24	58689673	$350
2000 Pokemon Base Set 2 Holo Venusaur #18 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-25	—	$348
2000 Pokemon Base Set 2 Holo Venusaur #18 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-13	—	$312

1–8 of 15 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

1,339

13.1% of 10,245 graded

Graded higher

107

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

10,245

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 216 of 2,298 · BGS 111 of 502 · TAG 2 of 129. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Venusaur 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

Close call

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

1360%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$145

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$85

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 185 graded sales and a population of 1,899,650 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Venusaur (Base Set 2 #18) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Venusaur from Base Set 2 is worth approximately $330, with a fair range of $281 to $379 — about 3.3× the $100 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 4 days.

How many PSA 9 Venusaur exist?

PSA has graded 1,339 copies of Venusaur (Base Set 2 #18) a 9, out of 10,245 submitted — 13.1% of the population, with 107 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Venusaur hoping for a PSA 9?

It is close. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $85 grading fee is about $4; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 1360% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Venusaur a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Venusaur has 19 recorded sales, 13 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.