Rare HoloEvolutions42/1082016PSA 9

Zapdos 42/108 · Evolutions PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$24

Fair buy $21 · sell $284.1× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$6
PSA 9this page$244.1×
PSA 10$45075×

PSA 9 sales: 28; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 20; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 20 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 5d ago; one every ~2d

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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 $24? 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
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #53115941	$20
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #60848180	$25
2026-09-19	eBay · fixedprice	listing #62191392	$26
2026-09-17	eBay · bestoffer	listing #57166284	$23
2026-09-17	eBay · bestoffer	listing #57166282	$20
2026-09-14	eBay · bestoffer	listing #57166283	$23

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 5 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 452 sales across 28 quarters, Q4 2019 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$24▲ 21%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 $24 (Q3 2026, 24 sales) · ▲ 300% since Q4 2019

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

26 slabs have sold more than once, across 26 resales — typically 282 days apart, with a median gross price change of +0.0%. That is 26 of the 407 distinct slabs behind 458 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#74098725	Mar 2026 $25→Jun 2026 $25	3–6 months	+0.0%
#51320125	Nov 2020 $43→Apr 2026 $21	Over a year	-50.6%
#26738157	Nov 2020 $50→Apr 2026 $22	Over a year	-56.0%
#61216518	Mar 2025 $13→Mar 2026 $18	Over a year	+38.5%
#103119655	Jan 2026 $27→Mar 2026 $27	Under 3 months	+0.0%
#60567595	Apr 2025 $18→Feb 2026 $20	6–12 months	+11.1%
#95368899	Aug 2024 $9→Nov 2025 $18	Over a year	+105.9%
#59908420	Jul 2025 $25→Nov 2025 $20	3–6 months	-20.0%
#71087450	Mar 2023 $13→Nov 2025 $23	Over a year	+84.0%
#85157188	Feb 2025 $25→Jun 2025 $26	3–6 months	+4.0%

Showing the 10 most recent of 26 slabs with a history. 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 28 PSA 9 sales with a median of $24; 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
Pokemon 2016 XY Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 Holo Rare English PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$30.00
Zapdos Holo 42/108 - XY Evolutions - PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$43.68
2016 Pokémon XY Evolutions Zapdos Holo #42 PSA 9 MINT – Legendary Bird Card	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$24.99
2016 Pokémon XY Zapdos Holo 42/108 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-26	—	$32.00
PSA 9 2016 Pokemon TCG Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 Holo English Holo Rare	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-26	—	$30.00
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	60848180	$25.00
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	53115941	$20.00
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-19	62191392	$26.26
2016 Pokemon XY Evolutions - Zapdos Holo #42/108 - PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-18	—	$26.26
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-17	57166282	$20.00
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-17	57166284	$23.00
2016 Pokémon Evolutions Zapdos 42/108 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-14	57166283	$23.00
2016 Pokemon XY Evolutions Holo Zapdos #42 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-30	—	$18.00

1–8 of 13 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

2,881

59.2% of 4,868 graded

Graded higher

473

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

4,868

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 646 of 1,831 · BGS 20 of 44 · TAG 6 of 37. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Zapdos 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-46

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5930%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-62

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

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 90 graded sales and a population of 1,310,688 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Zapdos (Evolutions #42) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Zapdos from Evolutions is worth approximately $24, with a fair range of $21 to $28 — about 4.1× the $6 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, 5 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Zapdos exist?

PSA has graded 2,881 copies of Zapdos (Evolutions #42) a 9, out of 4,868 submitted — 59.2% of the population, with 473 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Zapdos hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-46; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5930% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Zapdos a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Zapdos has 28 recorded sales, 20 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.