Rare UltraBattle Styles146/1632021PSA 9

Empoleon V 146/163 · Battle Styles PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$75

Fair buy $64 · sell $861.2× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$65
PSA 9this page$751.2×
PSA 10$1712.6×

PSA 9 sales: 13; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 8; occasional
Confidence: High; 8 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 5d 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 $75? 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 · bestoffer	listing #158170243	$70
2026-09-16	eBay · bestoffer	listing #116743484	$85
2026-09-03	eBay · bestoffer	listing #153663173	$85
2026-08-25	eBay · auction	listing #70028575	$68
2026-08-20	Fanatics · bestoffer	#70570482 sold before	$83
2026-08-19	Fanatics · fixedprice	#121307997	$75

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 1 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 — 212 sales across 43 months, Oct 2022 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$75▲ 34%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 $85 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 174% since Oct 2022

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

10 slabs have sold more than once, across 13 resales — typically 211 days apart, with a median gross price change of +22.2%. That is 10 of the 189 distinct slabs behind 212 cert-linked sales at this grade — 5.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#70570482	Feb 2023 $36→Oct 2025 $44→Jun 2026 $65→Aug 2026 $83	Under 3 months	+130.6%
#138761764	Feb 2026 $70→Jul 2026 $72	3–6 months	+2.9%
#70120730	Mar 2025 $57→May 2026 $84	Over a year	+47.3%
#100097989	Sept 2025 $80→Apr 2026 $85	6–12 months	+6.2%
#68301051	Oct 2025 $60→Mar 2026 $45	3–6 months	-25.0%
#75523734	Aug 2025 $74→Feb 2026 $60	6–12 months	-19.4%
#65379197	Oct 2022 $31→Dec 2025 $51	Over a year	+64.5%
#97094610	Nov 2024 $34→Sept 2025 $70	6–12 months	+105.9%
#71299828	Mar 2024 $21→Jan 2025 $46	6–12 months	+123.4%
#62728121	Nov 2022 $41→Jan 2023 $23→Mar 2023 $21	Under 3 months	-50.0%

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 13 PSA 9 sales with a median of $80; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
The Pokémon Company Pokemon TCG Empoleon V 146/163 Battle Styles Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$79.99
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-24	158170243	$70.00
POKEMON EMPOLEON V 146/163 SWSH ALTERNATE FULL ART BATTLE STYLES 2021 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-23	—	$80.00
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-16	116743484	$84.99
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-03	153663173	$84.99
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-25	70028575	$68.00
2021 Pokemon SWSH Battle Styles Empoleon V Full Art #146/163 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$68.00
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Battle Styles Full Art Empoleon V #146 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-08-20	—	$95.00
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2026-08-20	70570482	$83.00
2021 Pokémon Battle Styles Empoleon V 146/163 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectFixedPrice	2026-08-19	121307997	$75.00
2021 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD BATTLE STYLES #146 FULL ART/EMPOLEON V PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-13	—	$100

1–8 of 11 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

1,477

28% of 5,283 graded

Graded higher

3,478

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

5,283

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 329 of 895. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Empoleon V 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

$-9

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2770%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-71

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 91 graded sales and a population of 4,414,565 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Empoleon V (Battle Styles #146) — PSA 9 market value USD $75, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/battle-styles/empoleon-v-146/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Empoleon V (Battle Styles #146) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Empoleon V from Battle Styles is worth approximately $75, with a fair range of $64 to $86 — about 1.2× the $65 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, 4 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 8 days.

How many PSA 9 Empoleon V exist?

PSA has graded 1,477 copies of Empoleon V (Battle Styles #146) a 9, out of 5,283 submitted — 28% of the population, with 3,478 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Empoleon V 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 $-9; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2770% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Empoleon V a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Empoleon V has 13 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.