Altaria — BW Black Star Promos #BW48, PSA 9

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Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · BW Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,000

Fair buy $900 · sell $1,000 (±10%)23× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$43
PSA 9this page$1,00023×
PSA 10$7,800180×

PSA 9 sales: 3; 5 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 1; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 29d ago; one every ~191d

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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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PSA 9 · buy now

Pokemon TCG Altaria BW48 PSA 9 Holo Promo 2012 Black & White English POP 21PSA 9eBay$1,500

Cheapest ask $1,500 — 50% above our PSA 9 estimate of $1,000

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Why $1,000? 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
2025-09-21	eBay · bestoffer	listing #93001064	$45
2025-03-14	eBay · bestoffer	listing #60640839	$50
2025-01-20	eBay · fixedprice	listing #63396737	$45
2024-08-24	eBay · auction	listing #94859701	$21
2023-03-20	eBay · auction	listing #69878599	$29

2 of 5 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 191 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 6 sales across 6 months, Dec 2022 to Sep 2025.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,000▲ 20×over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 22×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. The recorded PSA 9 price index, 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 $45 (Sep 2025, 1 sale) · ▲ 125% since Dec 2022

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 3 PSA 9 sales with a median of $505; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 5

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2012 Pokemon Black & White Promo #BW48 Altaria Holo Dragons Exalted Staff PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-06	—	$505
2012 Pokemon Black White Promo Dragons Exalted Altaria Holo BW48 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-03-30	—	$1,000
2011 Pokémon BW Black Star Promos Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-09-21	93001064	$44.99
2011 Pokémon BW Black Star Promos Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-03-14	60640839	$49.99
2011 Pokémon BW Black Star Promos Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2025-01-20	63396737	$44.99
2012 Pokemon Black & White Promo Altaria-Holo #BW48 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2025-01-19	—	$45.00
2011 Pokémon BW Black Star Promos Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2024-08-24	94859701	$20.50
2011 Pokémon BW Black Star Promos Altaria PR-BLW BW48 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2023-03-20	69878599	$29.08

1–8 of 8 sales · 5 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($505) 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

41.5% of 94 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

every grade, all time

Is Altaria 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

$851

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4040%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$825

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$132

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.

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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 23 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Altaria (BW Black Star Promos #BW48) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Altaria from BW Black Star Promos is worth approximately $1,000, with a fair range of $900 to $1,000 — about 23× the $43 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 9 price come from?

From 5 cert-verified PSA 9 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 2 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 191 days.

How many PSA 9 Altaria exist?

PSA has graded 39 copies of Altaria (BW Black Star Promos #BW48) a 9, out of 94 submitted — 41.5% of the population, with 9 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Altaria hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $132 grading fee is about $851; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4040% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Altaria a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Altaria has 3 recorded sales, 1 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.