UncommonBase42/1021999PSA 9

Wartortle 42/102 · Base PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$69

Fair buy $65 · sell $8923× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$3
PSA 9this page$6923×
PSA 10$27692×

PSA 9 sales: 10; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 7; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 7 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 8d ago; one every ~8d

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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 $69? 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
2026-08-14	eBay · bestoffer	listing #159058084	$75
2026-08-06	eBay · auction	listing #69170474	$61
2026-07-23	eBay · auction	listing #83690019	$68
2026-07-16	eBay · bestoffer	listing #96987187	$70
2026-07-15	eBay · bestoffer	listing #61208164 sold before	$59
2026-06-11	Fanatics · bestoffer	#159193217	$69

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 8 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 26 sales across 16 months, Oct 2021 to Aug 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$69▲ 45%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 $68 (Aug 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 79% since Oct 2021

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 24 distinct slabs behind 26 cert-linked sales at this grade — 4.2%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#61208164	Mar 2025 $20→Jul 2026 $59	Over a year	+195.0%

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 10 PSA 9 sales with a median of $77; 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
1999 Pokemon Base Set Wartortle #42 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-27	—	$100
1999 POKEMON BASE SET UNLIMITED #42 WARTORTLE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-18	—	$79.00
Wartortle Pokemon Base Set 42/102 Vintage PSA 9 Ken Sugimori	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-16	—	$115
Pokemon TCG Wartortle 42/102 Base Set Unlimited Rare PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-12	—	$99.99
Pokemon Base Set Wartortle PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-31	—	$69.00
1999 POKEMON BASE SET UNLIMITED #42 WARTORTLE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-23	—	$104
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-14	159058084	$75.00
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-06	69170474	$61.23
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-07-23	83690019	$67.99
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-16	96987187	$70.00
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-15	61208164	$58.99
1999 Pokémon Base Wartortle 42/102 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2026-06-11	159193217	$69.00
1999-2000 Pokemon Base Set Wartortle #42 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-11	—	$49.20
1999 Pokemon Base Set Wartortle #42 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-23	—	$26.40

1–8 of 14 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

1,905

33.7% of 5,654 graded

Graded higher

829

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

5,654

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 520 of 3,001 · BGS 29 of 125 · TAG 16 of 110. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Wartortle 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

$-0

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3400%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-15

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 89 graded sales and a population of 1,895,383 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Wartortle (Base #42) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Wartortle from Base is worth approximately $69, with a fair range of $65 to $89 — about 23× the $3 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, 4 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 8 days.

How many PSA 9 Wartortle exist?

PSA has graded 1,905 copies of Wartortle (Base #42) a 9, out of 5,654 submitted — 33.7% of the population, with 829 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Wartortle hoping for a PSA 9?

It is close. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-0; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3400% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Wartortle a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Wartortle has 10 recorded sales, 7 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.