Rare UltraEvolving Skies171/2032021PSA 9

Gyarados V 171/203 · Evolving Skies PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$40

Fair buy $30 · sell $402.0× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$20
PSA 9this page$402.0×
PSA 10$1648.2×

PSA 9 sales: 8; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 6; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 6 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 9d ago; one every ~9d

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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 $40? 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
2026-09-24	Fanatics · fixedprice	#69490922	$40
2026-08-27	eBay · bestoffer	listing #73487238 sold before	$56
2026-08-18	eBay · bestoffer	listing #157114232	$30
2026-08-10	eBay · bestoffer	listing #142707988	$31
2026-08-10	Fanatics · auction	#138447369	$35
2026-07-14	eBay · bestoffer	listing #100340818 sold before	$35

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 80 sales across 32 months, Dec 2022 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$40▲ 67%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

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 $40 (Sep 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 122% since Dec 2022

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

9 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 339 days apart, with a median gross price change of +81.8%. That is 9 of the 69 distinct slabs behind 80 cert-linked sales at this grade — 13%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#73487238	Jul 2025 $18→Aug 2026 $56	Over a year	+211.1%
#100340818	Jan 2025 $20→Jul 2026 $35	Over a year	+79.5%
#73619785	Jul 2025 $20→Jun 2026 $32	6–12 months	+60.0%
#77241421	May 2025 $30→Apr 2026 $65	6–12 months	+116.7%
#76949622	Aug 2023 $21→Nov 2023 $15→Feb 2026 $27	Over a year	+31.7%
#103922245	Apr 2025 $14→Jan 2026 $38	6–12 months	+161.0%
#103922246	Apr 2025 $13→Nov 2025 $32	6–12 months	+138.7%
#102145299	Feb 2025 $17→Sept 2025 $30	6–12 months	+81.8%
#74452363	Jul 2023 $13→Mar 2025 $16	Over a year	+23.6%

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 8 PSA 9 sales with a median of $35; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2021 Pokemon Evolving Skies Gyarados V #171 Full Art PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$39.99
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectFixedPrice	2026-09-24	69490922	$40.00
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-27	73487238	$56.00
2021 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD EVOLVING SKIES 171 FULL ART/GYARADOS V PSA MINT 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-18	—	$34.99
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-18	157114232	$30.00
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-08-10	138447369	$34.80
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-10	142707988	$30.75
Pokémon Gyarados V (Full Art) 171/203 SWSH07: Evolving Skies Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-09	—	$30.75
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Evolving Skies Gyarados V #171 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-14	—	$40.00
2021 Pokémon Evolving Skies Gyarados V 171/203 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-14	100340818	$35.00
Gyarados V PSA 9 2021 Sword & Shield Evolving Skies Ultra Rare #171/203 1421	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-21	—	$24.40

1–8 of 11 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

329

33.3% of 987 graded

Graded higher

541

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

987

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 122 of 385. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Gyarados V 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

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3320%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-61

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 55 graded sales and a population of 4,410,481 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Gyarados V (Evolving Skies #171) — PSA 9 market value USD $40, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/evolving-skies/gyarados-v-171/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Gyarados V (Evolving Skies #171) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Gyarados V from Evolving Skies is worth approximately $40, with a fair range of $30 to $40 — about 2.0× the $20 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, 4 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days.

How many PSA 9 Gyarados V exist?

PSA has graded 329 copies of Gyarados V (Evolving Skies #171) a 9, out of 987 submitted — 33.3% of the population, with 541 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Gyarados V hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $5; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3320% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Gyarados V a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Gyarados V has 8 recorded sales, 6 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.