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Zapdos — Base #16, PSA 9

Rare HoloBase16/1021999PSA 9

Zapdos 16/102 · Base PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,348

Fair buy $1,213 · sell $1,348 (±10%)35× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$38
  • PSA 9this page$1,34835×
  • PSA 10$2,04354×
PSA 9 sales
52
3 cert-verified
Last 90 days
36
sells often
Confidence
High
36 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
psa 9
ViewingPSA 9Raw / ungraded →PSA 10 →1st Edition PSA 9 $2,725 →Shadowless PSA 9 $693 →

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: $1,307 (range $883–$1,984, moderate confidence, from cert #52584392, checked ). 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 $1,307
Ours $1,348
PSA low $883PSA high $1,984
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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.

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

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Why $1,348? 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
2026-05-30eBay · fixedpricelisting#52584392$1,348
2026-03-01eBay · bestofferlisting#98341358$1,750
2025-12-08eBay · bestofferlisting#128412150$1,000

0 of 3 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price.

PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,348▲ 11×over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$100
$200
$500
$1,000
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 Oct
Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 12×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. 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.

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 52 PSA 9 sales with a median of $206; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 7 PSA 9 sales, 3 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
PSA 9 MINT 💎 1999 POKEMON GAME ZAPDOS HOLO #16 ENGLISHPSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$246
PSA 9 1999 POKEMON GAME ZAPDOS HOLO #16 ENGLISHPSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$220
1999 Pokemon Game #16 Zapdos-Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$250
ZAPDOS 1999 POKEMON GAME 16/102 RARE HOLO PSA 9 Q0285PSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$199
ZAPDOS 1999 POKEMON BASE SET 16/102 HOLO RARE PSA 9 Q3963-5PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$244
ZAPDOS 1999 POKEMON BASE SET 16/102 HOLO RARE PSA 9 Q3963-5PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$201
Pokémon TCG Zapdos Holo Card 016/102 Base Set PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-28—$200
1999 POKEMON BASE SET UNLIMITED #16 ZAPDOS-HOLO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-26—$215

1–8 of 17 sales · 3 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($206) 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

4,197

21.8% of 19,234 graded

Graded higher

685

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

19,234

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 804 of 5,598 · BGS 72 of 331 · TAG 23 of 293. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Zapdos 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

$293

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2220%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$1,216

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$94

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 316 graded sales and a population of 1,908,596 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Zapdos and more from Base

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

Cite this PSA 9 pricefree with attribution

Citation

Zapdos (Base #16) — PSA 9 market value USD $1,348, from 3 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/base/zapdos-16/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Zapdos (Base #16) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Zapdos from Base is worth approximately $1,348, with a fair range of $1,213 to $1,348 — about 35× the $38 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 3 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 0 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price.

How many PSA 9 Zapdos exist?

PSA has graded 4,197 copies of Zapdos (Base #16) a 9, out of 19,234 submitted — 21.8% of the population, with 685 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Zapdos hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $94 grading fee is about $293; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2220% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Zapdos a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Zapdos has 52 recorded sales, 36 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.