Ninetales — Expedition Base Set #21, PSA 10

Rare HoloExpedition Base Set21/1652002PSA 10

Ninetales 21/165 · Expedition Base Set PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$10,000

Fair buy $9,000 · sell $10,000 (±10%)83× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$120
PSA 9$8857.4×
PSA 10this page$10,00083×

PSA 10 sales: 7; 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 ~28d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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 $10,000? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2026-09-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #56614606 sold before	$10,000
2026-09-17	eBay · fixedprice	listing #27806283	$10,000
2026-09-14	eBay · fixedprice	listing #28390786	$8,000
2026-08-17	Fanatics · auction	#70219535 sold before	$4,440
2026-07-04	eBay · fixedprice	listing #28726458 sold before	$5,400
2026-04-27	Goldin · auction	#70219535 sold before	$5,734

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 28 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 41 sales across 26 months, Jan 2018 to Sep 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$10,000▲ 11×over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 11×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. The recorded PSA 10 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 $10,000 (Sep 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 7146% since Jan 2018

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 13 resales — typically 398 days apart, with a median gross price change of +312.5%. That is 8 of the 27 distinct slabs behind 41 cert-linked sales at this grade — 29.6%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#56614606	Apr 2025 $550→Sept 2026 $10,000	Over a year	+1718.2%
#70219535	Apr 2026 $5,734→Aug 2026 $4,440	3–6 months	-22.6%
#28726458	Apr 2021 $510→Mar 2026 $4,000→Apr 2026 $4,551→Jul 2026 $5,400	Under 3 months	+958.8%
#28104840	May 2019 $77→Jun 2020 $350→Apr 2026 $5,495	Over a year	+7035.7%
#42698158	May 2019 $80→Jun 2020 $330→Feb 2026 $3,670	Over a year	+4487.1%
#60242941	Jan 2025 $451→Mar 2025 $440	Under 3 months	-2.4%
#28726459	Jul 2019 $91→Feb 2025 $630	Over a year	+592.3%
#28211821	Mar 2018 $130→Dec 2018 $90→May 2020 $365	Over a year	+180.8%

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 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 7 PSA 10 sales with a median of $8,000; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 3 PSA 10 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ninetales #21 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$18,600
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ninetales #21 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-09-28	—	$40,000
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ninetales #21 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-09-28	—	$15,500
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-23	56614606	$10,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-17	27806283	$10,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-14	28390786	$8,000
2002 Pokemon Expedition #21 Ninetales Holo PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-13	—	$8,000
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-08-17	70219535	$4,440
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2026-07-04	28726458	$5,400
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Ninetales 21/165 · PSA 10	PSA 10	Goldin AuctionsAuction	2026-04-27	70219535	$5,734
2002 Pokemon Expedition Holo Ninetales #21 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2025-01-27	—	$540

1–8 of 11 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($8,000) 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 10 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 10 population

9.1% of 800 graded

Share of every submission

9.1%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

800

every grade, all time

Is Ninetales worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$1,129

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

960%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$9,161

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$146

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 52 graded sales and a population of 1,890,602 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Ninetales 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 10 Ninetales (Expedition Base Set #21) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Ninetales from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $10,000, with a fair range of $9,000 to $10,000 — about 83× the $120 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 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 10 copy trades roughly every 28 days.

How many PSA 10 Ninetales exist?

PSA has graded 73 copies of Ninetales (Expedition Base Set #21) a 10, out of 800 submitted — 9.1% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Ninetales hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $146 grading fee is about $1,129; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 960% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Ninetales a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Ninetales has 7 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.