Ampharos — Expedition Base Set #2, PSA 9

Rare HoloExpedition Base Set2/1652002PSA 9

Ampharos 2/165 · Expedition Base Set PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$5,156

Fair buy $4,640 · sell $5,156 (±10%)24× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$211
PSA 9this page$5,15624×
PSA 10$59,999284×

PSA 9 sales: 5; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 4; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 8d ago; one every ~32d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of yesterday. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $10,000 — 94% above our PSA 9 estimate of $5,156

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Why $5,156? 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.

Waiting for a second sale. The last PSA 9 sold for $7,800 on 2026-09-28, well above the $2,512 before it, and PSA has graded only 174 at this level. One sale of a low-population card can be a one-off, so our price sits halfway between the two until another copy sells near the higher figure.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-09-25	eBay · fixedprice	listing #52645378	$2,512
2026-09-09	eBay · auction	listing #41230897	$1,627
2026-08-08	eBay · fixedprice	listing #133023764 sold before	$1,842
2026-06-08	eBay · bestoffer	listing #46379574	$900
2026-04-05	eBay · auction	listing #95107021	$721
2026-04-03	eBay · fixedprice	listing #52488473	$525

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 32 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 49 sales across 34 months, Dec 2017 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$5,156▲ 19×over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 25×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. 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 $2,512 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 5482% since Dec 2017

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

7 slabs have sold more than once, across 7 resales — typically 650 days apart, with a median gross price change of +122.2%. That is 7 of the 41 distinct slabs behind 50 cert-linked sales at this grade — 17.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#133023764	Dec 2025 $350→Aug 2026 $1,842	6–12 months	+426.4%
#44040524	Nov 2019 $49→Dec 2025 $280	Over a year	+471.4%
#100420010	Jan 2025 $162→Nov 2025 $300	6–12 months	+85.2%
#41930203	Dec 2020 $266→Apr 2024 $189	Over a year	-28.8%
#47374630	Oct 2020 $205→Dec 2020 $355	Under 3 months	+73.2%
#27184229	Dec 2017 $40→May 2020 $105	Over a year	+162.5%
#41119181	Jul 2018 $45→Apr 2020 $100	Over a year	+122.2%

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 $2,069; 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
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ampharos #2 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$7,800
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ampharos #2 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-28	—	$6,500
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-25	52645378	$2,512
Ampharos Holo 2/165 Expedition Pokemon PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-24	—	$2,512
AMPHAROS 2/165 - Expedition Holo - PSA 9 MINT 💎 CLEAN POP 174	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-14	—	$3,083
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-09	41230897	$1,627
AMPHAROS PSA 9 2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #2/165 HOLO 0897	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-08	—	$1,627
2002 Pokemon Expedition Base Ampharos - Holo - PSA 9 MINT 2/165	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-08	—	$90.17
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-08-08	133023764	$1,842
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-06-08	46379574	$900
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-04-05	95107021	$721
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ampharos 2/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-04-03	52488473	$525

1–8 of 12 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($2,069) 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

174

20.1% of 864 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

864

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 25 of 169 · TAG 1 of 15. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Ampharos 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

$2,540

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2080%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$4,645

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$300

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 43 graded sales and a population of 1,890,676 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Ampharos and more from Expedition Base Set

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 Ampharos (Expedition Base Set #2) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Ampharos from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $5,156, with a fair range of $4,640 to $5,156 — about 24× the $211 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 32 days.

How many PSA 9 Ampharos exist?

PSA has graded 174 copies of Ampharos (Expedition Base Set #2) a 9, out of 864 submitted — 20.1% of the population, with 22 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Ampharos hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $300 grading fee is about $2,540; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2080% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Ampharos a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Ampharos has 5 recorded sales, 4 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.