Charmander — Expedition Base Set #97, PSA 9

CommonExpedition Base Set97/1652002PSA 9

Charmander 97/165 · Expedition Base Set PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$172

Fair buy $154 · sell $172 (±10%)8.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$20
PSA 9this page$1728.6×
PSA 10$64032×

PSA 9 sales: 13; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 7; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 7 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~10d

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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

Pokemon Expedition Charmander 97/165 PSA 9PSA 9eBay$155

Cheapest ask $155 — 10% below our PSA 9 estimate of $172

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Why $172? 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
2026-09-18	eBay · auction	listing #159166111	$172
2026-09-08	eBay · bestoffer	listing #132513333	$110
2026-09-07	eBay · bestoffer	listing #139786379	$125
2026-09-07	eBay · bestoffer	listing #88968289	$125
2026-07-31	eBay · auction	listing #165392171	$97
2026-07-19	eBay · bestoffer	listing #110870267	$100

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 76 sales across 31 months, Dec 2019 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$172▲ 585%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 $125 (Sep 2026, 4 sales) · ▲ 733% since Dec 2019

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

4 slabs have sold more than once, across 4 resales — typically 304 days apart, with a median gross price change of +196.9%. That is 4 of the 68 distinct slabs behind 76 cert-linked sales at this grade — 5.9%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#72314374	Nov 2025 $32→Jul 2026 $95	6–12 months	+196.9%
#75890668	Feb 2025 $22→Oct 2025 $22	6–12 months	+0.0%
#54657875	Aug 2024 $7→Jun 2025 $25	6–12 months	+283.8%
#75360431	Oct 2023 $20→Feb 2025 $20	Over a year	-0.1%

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 13 PSA 9 sales with a median of $105; 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.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Pokemon Expedition Charmander 97/165 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-03	—	$155
2002 Pokemon Expedition Charmander 97/165 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$375
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-18	159166111	$172
2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #97 CHARMANDER PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$172
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-08	132513333	$110
2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #97 CHARMANDER PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-07	—	$150
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-07	88968289	$125
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-07	139786379	$125
2002 Pokemon Expedition Charmander PSA 9 #97 Gem Mint Low Pop	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-06	—	$125
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-07-31	165392171	$97.00
2002 POKEMON EXPEDITION #97 CHARMANDER PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-30	—	$97.00
CHARMANDER #097/165 - 2002 ENGLISH POKÉMON EXPEDITION E READER - PSA MINT 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-19	—	$105
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Charmander 97/165 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-19	110870267	$100
2002 Pokemon Expedition Base Set Charmander #97 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-08	—	$54.00
2002 Pokemon Expedition Charmander #97 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-08	—	$56.40

1–8 of 15 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($105) 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

269

38.1% of 706 graded

Graded higher

215

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

706

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 106 of 396 · TAG 1 of 11. 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

$183

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3810%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$69

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$83

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 59 graded sales and a population of 1,890,502 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Charmander and more from Expedition Base Set

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Charmander (Expedition Base Set #97) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Charmander from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $172, with a fair range of $154 to $172 — about 8.6× 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 — 2 at auction, 4 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days.

How many PSA 9 Charmander exist?

PSA has graded 269 copies of Charmander (Expedition Base Set #97) a 9, out of 706 submitted — 38.1% of the population, with 215 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 $83 grading fee is about $183; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3810% 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 13 recorded sales, 7 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.