Rare UltraDark Explorers105/1082012PSA 9

Raikou-EX 105/108 · Dark Explorers PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,150

Fair buy $1,035 · sell $1,150 (±10%)4.3× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$268
PSA 9this page$1,1504.3×
PSA 10$20,00075×

PSA 9 sales: 5; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 3; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 35d ago; one every ~24d

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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: $1,190 (range $869–$1,637, moderate confidence, from cert #28722361, checked Sept 2026). 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 $1,190

Ours $1,150

PSA low $869PSA high $1,637

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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.

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

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Why $1,150? 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
2026-08-31	eBay · fixedprice	listing #28722361	$1,150
2026-07-09	eBay · bestoffer	listing #55812065	$1,000
2026-07-09	eBay · fixedprice	listing #65126858	$1,000
2026-07-09	eBay · fixedprice	listing #28385808 sold before	$1,000
2026-05-14	eBay · bestoffer	listing #64386241	$950
2026-04-20	Fanatics · auction	#52014362	$690

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 24 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 53 sales across 33 months, Nov 2017 to Aug 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,150▲ 180%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 $1,150 (Aug 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 1253% since Nov 2017

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

5 slabs have sold more than once, across 5 resales — typically 421 days apart, with a median gross price change of +233.3%. That is 5 of the 37 distinct slabs behind 53 cert-linked sales at this grade — 13.5%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#28385808	May 2025 $300→Jul 2026 $1,000	Over a year	+233.3%
#52147062	Apr 2025 $265→Oct 2025 $615	3–6 months	+132.1%
#28741897	Mar 2020 $49→Apr 2025 $290	Over a year	+491.8%
#28741909	Apr 2018 $29→Apr 2025 $270	Over a year	+831.0%
#28448355	Jan 2018 $77→Jun 2018 $55	3–6 months	-28.2%

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 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,025; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-08-31	28722361	$1,150
2012 Pokemon BW Dark Explorers Raikou EX Full Art 105/108 PSA 9 Mint LOW POP	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-09	—	$2,500
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-07-09	28385808	$1,000
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-07-09	65126858	$1,000
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-09	55812065	$1,000
Pokemon Raikou Dark Explorers Ex Full Art 105/108 Psa 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-05-14	—	$1,025
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-05-14	64386241	$950
2012 Pokémon Dark Explorers Raikou-EX 105/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-04-20	52014362	$690

1–8 of 8 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

102

24.9% of 409 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

409

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 1 of 69. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Raikou-EX 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

$310

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

140%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$781

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$101

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 30 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 Raikou-EX (Dark Explorers #105) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Raikou-EX from Dark Explorers is worth approximately $1,150, with a fair range of $1,035 to $1,150 — about 4.3× the $268 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, 2 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 24 days.

How many PSA 9 Raikou-EX exist?

PSA has graded 102 copies of Raikou-EX (Dark Explorers #105) a 9, out of 409 submitted — 24.9% of the population, with 27 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Raikou-EX hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $101 grading fee is about $310; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 140% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Raikou-EX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Raikou-EX has 5 recorded sales, 3 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.