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Charmander — Dragon #98, PSA 9

Rare SecretDragon98/972003PSA 9

Charmander 98/97 · Dragon PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,296

Fair buy $1,166 · sell $1,296 (±10%)3.9× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$335
  • PSA 9this page$1,2963.9×
  • PSA 10$8,00024×
PSA 9 sales
19
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
12
sells regularly
Confidence
High
12 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
one every ~7d
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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 →

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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 $1,296? 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
2026-09-19eBay · fixedpricelisting#91089509$1,296
2026-09-17eBay · bestofferlisting#68129354sold before$462
2026-09-15eBay · bestofferlisting#166246065$539
2026-08-03eBay · auctionlisting#27390353$358
2026-07-26eBay · auctionlisting#97380994$433
2026-07-19eBay · auctionlisting#82031223$445

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 7 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 79 sales across 43 months, Oct 2017 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,296▲ 438%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$250
$500
$750
$1,000
$1,250
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 OctRaw NM
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 $539 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 1639% since Oct 2017

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

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 375 days apart, with a median gross price change of +83.3%. That is 8 of the 68 distinct slabs behind 79 cert-linked sales at this grade — 11.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#68129354Mar 2023 $93→Dec 2024 $90→Sept 2026 $462Over a year+393.8%
#49973597Jan 2026 $290→May 2026 $492→Jul 2026 $520Under 3 months+79.3%
#139450912Mar 2026 $300→Jul 2026 $5503–6 months+83.3%
#110175274Jun 2025 $250→Jun 2026 $470Over a year+88.0%
#135419518Jan 2026 $323→Apr 2026 $615Under 3 months+90.4%
#47994351Aug 2020 $110→Apr 2025 $135Over a year+22.3%
#46548177Jun 2020 $80→May 2024 $103Over a year+28.1%
#42417210May 2019 $20→Jun 2020 $70Over a year+250.0%

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 19 PSA 9 sales with a median of $479; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2003 Pokemon Charmander Holo EX Dragon City Champs #98 PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$623
Pokemon Charmander Holo EX Dragon 98/97 PSA 9 MintPSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$599
2003 Pokemon EX Dragon Charmander City Champ Holo #98/97 PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-30—$660
2003 Pokémon Dragon Charmander 98/97 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-09-1991089509$1,296
2003 Pokémon Dragon Charmander 98/97 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-09-1768129354$462
Pokemon Charmander 98/97 - Ex Dragon - PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-15—$550
2003 Pokémon Dragon Charmander 98/97 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-09-15166246065$539
2003 POKEMON EX DRAGON CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS #98 CHARMANDER-HOLO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-11—$575

1–8 of 16 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($479) 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

374

29% of 1,289 graded

Graded higher

120

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

1,289

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 44 of 259 · TAG 7 of 30. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Charmander 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

3030%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$807

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$154

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 86 graded sales and a population of 1,891,032 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Charmander and more from Dragon

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

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Citation

Charmander (Dragon #98) — PSA 9 market value USD $1,296, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/dragon/charmander-98/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Charmander (Dragon #98) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Charmander from Dragon is worth approximately $1,296, with a fair range of $1,166 to $1,296 — about 3.9× the $335 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 — 3 at auction, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 7 days.

How many PSA 9 Charmander exist?

PSA has graded 374 copies of Charmander (Dragon #98) a 9, out of 1,289 submitted — 29% of the population, with 120 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Charmander hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $154 grading fee is about $851; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3030% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Charmander a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Charmander has 19 recorded sales, 12 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.