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Venusaur — Crystal Guardians #28, PSA 9

RareCrystal Guardians28/1002006PSA 9

Venusaur 28/100 · Crystal Guardians PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$200

Fair buy $226 · sell $30912× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$17
  • PSA 9this page$20012×
  • PSA 10$78446×
PSA 9 sales
9
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
7
occasional
Confidence
Medium
7 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
9d ago
one every ~10d

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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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.

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Why $200? 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
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#41378029sold before$162
2026-09-16eBay · bestofferlisting#97489471sold before$200
2026-09-02eBay · bestofferlisting#101306036$68
2026-08-23eBay · fixedpricelisting#41378029sold before$68
2026-08-23eBay · fixedpricelisting#41378029sold before$68
2026-08-21eBay · bestofferlisting#54684620$75

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 38 sales across 21 months, Jun 2019 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$200▲ 285%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$50
$100
$150
$200
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 Oct
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 $162 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 440% since Jun 2019

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

4 slabs have sold more than once, across 6 resales — typically 296 days apart, with a median gross price change of +226.5%. That is 4 of the 27 distinct slabs behind 39 cert-linked sales at this grade — 14.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#97489471Jul 2026 $60→Sept 2026 $200Under 3 months+233.4%
#41378029Jun 2019 $30→Feb 2020 $13→Dec 2020 $45→Jul 2026 $68Over a year+127.0%
#104230792Jan 2026 $55→Apr 2026 $100Under 3 months+81.8%
#84846497Jul 2024 $25→Aug 2025 $80Over a year+226.5%

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 9 PSA 9 sales with a median of $180; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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

119

36% of 331 graded

Graded higher

53

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

331

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 55 of 234 · BGS 7 of 39 · TAG 2 of 19. 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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$72

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2350%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$101

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$82

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

More Venusaur and more from Crystal Guardians

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

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Citation

Venusaur (Crystal Guardians #28) — PSA 9 market value USD $200, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/crystal-guardians/venusaur-28/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Venusaur (Crystal Guardians #28) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Venusaur from Crystal Guardians is worth approximately $200, with a fair range of $226 to $309 — about 12× the $17 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 — 0 at auction, 4 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days.

How many PSA 9 Venusaur exist?

PSA has graded 119 copies of Venusaur (Crystal Guardians #28) a 9, out of 331 submitted — 36% of the population, with 53 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?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $82 grading fee is about $72; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2350% 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 9 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.