Butterfree — Expedition Base Set #5, PSA 9

Rare HoloExpedition Base Set5/1652002PSA 9

Butterfree 5/165 · Expedition Base Set PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,481

Fair buy $1,333 · sell $1,481 (±10%)8.8× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$169
PSA 9this page$1,4818.8×
PSA 10$48,000284×

PSA 9 sales: 12; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 5; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 5 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 6d ago; one every ~8d

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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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PSA 9 · buy now

Butterfree 005/165 Expedition Base Set Holo Rare PSA 9 2002 EnglishPSA 9eBay$25,000

Cheapest ask $25,000 — 1588% above our PSA 9 estimate of $1,481

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Why $1,481? 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
2026-09-25	eBay · fixedprice	listing #45899850	$1,481
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #70935426 sold before	$1,324
2026-09-09	eBay · bestoffer	listing #79196525	$1,395
2026-09-09	eBay · auction	listing #41863534	$1,325
2026-08-28	eBay · auction	listing #165874924	$1,353
2026-08-20	eBay · auction	listing #161469726	$1,475

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 8 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 73 sales across 48 months, Oct 2017 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,481▲ 581%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

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 $1,360 (Sep 2026, 4 sales) · ▲ 3300% since Oct 2017

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

9 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 1,300 days apart, with a median gross price change of +200.9%. That is 9 of the 63 distinct slabs behind 75 cert-linked sales at this grade — 14.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#70935426	Mar 2023 $124→Sept 2026 $1,324	Over a year	+971.5%
#44331072	Oct 2019 $23→Jul 2026 $1,100	Over a year	+4784.5%
#41930201	May 2019 $34→Jun 2026 $981	Over a year	+2786.1%
#61931636	Jan 2026 $600→Apr 2026 $707	3–6 months	+17.8%
#102528007	Apr 2025 $182→Jun 2025 $297→Apr 2026 $750	6–12 months	+313.2%
#24708271	Aug 2018 $36→Aug 2025 $224	Over a year	+520.8%
#41766048	Oct 2020 $80→May 2025 $185	Over a year	+131.2%
#85862749	Mar 2024 $120→May 2025 $196	Over a year	+63.3%
#26275460	Apr 2020 $66→Apr 2021 $199	6–12 months	+200.9%

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 12 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,299; 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
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Butterfree #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-29	—	$1,780
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-25	45899850	$1,481
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	70935426	$1,324
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-09	41863534	$1,325
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-09	79196525	$1,395
2002 Pokemon Expedition Butterfree #5 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-08	—	$1,500
BUTTERFREE PSA 9 2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #5/165 HOLO 3534	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-08	—	$1,325
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-28	165874924	$1,353
2002 Pokemon Expedition #5 Butterfree Holo PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-27	—	$1,353
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Butterfree 5/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-20	161469726	$1,475
2002 Pokemon Expedition #5 Butterfree Holo PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-19	—	$1,475
Pokemon Butterfree Holo Rare 2002 Expedition #5/165 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-01	—	$1,100
Pokemon Butterfree Expedition Holo Rare #5 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-21	—	$1,550
2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #5 BUTTERFREE-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-19	—	$1,274
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Butterfree #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-13	—	$492

1–8 of 15 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

200

24.8% of 806 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

806

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 31 of 185 · TAG 1 of 9. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Butterfree 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

$1,509

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2560%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$1,161

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$151

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 60 graded sales and a population of 1,890,605 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Butterfree 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 Butterfree (Expedition Base Set #5) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Butterfree from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $1,481, with a fair range of $1,333 to $1,481 — about 8.8× the $169 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, 1 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 8 days.

How many PSA 9 Butterfree exist?

PSA has graded 200 copies of Butterfree (Expedition Base Set #5) a 9, out of 806 submitted — 24.8% of the population, with 19 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Butterfree hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $151 grading fee is about $1,509; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2560% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Butterfree a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Butterfree has 12 recorded sales, 5 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.