CommonFossil53/621999Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno
Psyduck 53/62 · Fossil price & value
Raw · near mint
$2.02
Updated
GradedFull ladder ↓
- Sales recorded
- 255
- every grade, since 2024
- Last 90 days
- 165 raw · 216 all
- 120 in the last 30, every grade
- Confidence
- Medium
- 165 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.
- Latest sale
- 2d ago
- raw
Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →
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What's your copy worth?
The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →
NMheadline
Near Mint
$2.02
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LP
Lightly Played
$1.50
−26%
MP
Moderately Played
$0.79
−61%
HP
Heavily Played
$0.48
−76%
DM
Damaged
$0.24
−88%
And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.
Raw · latest
$2▼ 4%over 90 days
2026-06-18 → 2026-09-16
Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $4.20. That's about +108% over a typical Near Mint copy.
ⓘ How do we work this out?
We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (43 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.
Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.
Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.
These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.
Copies for sale right now
Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-15T20:47:34.873Z.
Raw / ungraded
cheapest 6 of 24
Psyduck 53/62 Fossil RegulareBay$0.99
Psyduck - Fossil - 53/62 - Pokemon TCG - LPworneBay$1.00
Psyduck 53/62 Common Fossil Pokemon Unlimited Lightly PlayedworneBay$1.00
Psyduck 53/62 Common Fossil Pokemon Unlimited Heavily PlayedworneBay$1.49
Pokémon TCG Fossil Psyduck #53/62 — Moderately Played (MP) | 1999worneBay$1.59
Pokemon Psyduck 53/62 Fossil MP [ZJ9APD]worneBay$1.74
Cheapest raw copy $1 — 51% below our near-mint estimate of $2 · 18 copies whose seller declares wear left out of that comparison
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What the sales actually show
The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.
Range
$1 – $100
Raw — lowest to highest sale
Sales rate
41.3/mo
every grade, whole record
Momentum
+29%
Raw — 30d vs 90d median
Where it sells
100% eBay
Raw — last 90 days
Demand
79/100
Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz
What each grade sold for
- Raw$2165 sales · 165 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 8.5$1413 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$1512 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$6511 sales · 11 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 10$407 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$256 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 10$4506 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 8$116 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.
Every sale we can show you
Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 255 sales for this card going back to 2024; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.
1–8 of 68 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
Every grade, priced
Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.
- PSA 10pop 210$450223× raw
- PSA 9pop 412$6532× raw
- ACE 9modelled$5125× raw
- SGC 10modelled$5025× raw
- BGS 9.5modelled$4522× raw
- CGC 10pop 5755 sold$3819× raw
- ACE 8modelled$3819× raw
- CGC 9.5pop 1222 sold$2613× raw
- PSA 8pop 284$2513× raw
- PSA 7pop 1321 sold$188.9× raw
- PSA 6pop 81modelled$188.8× raw
- BGS 91 sold$178.3× raw
- CGC 9pop 9109 sold$157.4× raw
- CGC 8.5pop 711$147.1× raw
- SGC 9.5modelled$136.5× raw
- AGS 7.5modelled$125.9× raw
- CGC 8pop 420$115.4× raw
- CGC 7.5pop 271modelled$104.9× raw
- CGC 7pop 170modelled$104.7× raw
- CGC 6.5pop 96modelled$63.0× raw
- PSA 5pop 43modelled$63.0× raw
- SGC 9modelled$42.0× raw
- CGC 6pop 88modelled$31.5× raw
- Ungraded$2
A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.
How many exist, and at what grade
PSA's cumulative census for this card — the same population behind the ladder above and the grading verdict below.
PSA 10 · gem mint
17.5%
210 of 1,202
PSA 9
34.3%
412 of 1,202
Total PSA graded
1,202
every grade, all time
- PSA 1,202 graded
- CGC 3,561 graded
- TAG 111 graded
The census is cumulative and counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the gem rate a first submission should expect. Treat it as the ceiling.
The odds of pulling one
Psyduck is a common card — a guaranteed slot in every pack rather than a rarity gamble, so there is no pull-odds figure for it.
Is Psyduck worth grading?
Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.
Verdict
Worth it
every grade weighted by its census share
Expected net
$42
after fees, all grades
Best case
$373
PSA 10 only
Grading cost
$71
tier fee + shipping
Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
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.
- 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 80 graded sales and a population of 1,890,963 · fees as of 2026-09-16.
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Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
More Psyduck and more from Fossil
Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.
PsyduckAquapolis · #104 · 2003$242PSA 10 $2,303
PsyduckWizards Black Star Promos · #20 · 1999$82.25PSA 10 $900
PsyduckAscended Heroes · #226 · 2026$74.54PSA 10 $300
Psyduck151 · #175 · 2023$65.06PSA 10 $481
PsyduckMcDonald's Collection 2018 · #2 · 2018$46.18
PsyduckTeam Magma vs Team Aqua · #44 · 2004$32.97PSA 10 $545
PsyduckNeo Destiny · #79 · 2002$26.64PSA 10 $510
PsyduckTeam Rocket Returns · #70 · 2004$26.46PSA 10 $978
GengarFossil · #5 · 1999$172PSA 10 $1,497
DragoniteFossil · #4 · 1999$132PSA 10 $6,500
MoltresFossil · #12 · 1999$50.86PSA 10 $1,386
ArticunoFossil · #2 · 1999$49.66PSA 10 $3,439
HaunterFossil · #6 · 1999$37.22PSA 10 $1,638
DittoFossil · #3 · 1999$34.94PSA 10 $2,424
RaichuFossil · #14 · 1999$33.92PSA 10 $408
GengarFossil · #20 · 1999$31.82PSA 10 $1,000
HitmonleeFossil · #7 · 1999$28.73PSA 10 $1,612
AerodactylFossil · #1 · 1999$25.72PSA 10 $1,270
KabutopsFossil · #9 · 1999$25.64PSA 10 $563
ZapdosFossil · #15 · 1999$25.53PSA 10 $735
HypnoFossil · #8 · 1999$24.93PSA 10 $981
DragoniteFossil · #19 · 1999$24.83PSA 10 $1,225
MagnetonFossil · #11 · 1999$18.60PSA 10 $450
LaprasFossil · #10 · 1999$18.01PSA 10 $4,250
MoltresFossil · #27 · 1999$11.00PSA 10 $225
ArticunoFossil · #17 · 1999$10.57PSA 10 $173
DittoFossil · #18 · 1999$10.27PSA 10 $249
MukFossil · #13 · 1999$10.14PSA 10 $395
ZapdosFossil · #30 · 1999$10.00PSA 10 $415
HaunterFossil · #21 · 1999$9.01PSA 10 $356
RaichuFossil · #29 · 1999$8.62PSA 10 $375
LaprasFossil · #25 · 1999$7.83PSA 10 $103
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Fossil #53/62, 1999. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
A black “EDITION 1” stamp sits to the left of the picture, between the illustration and the card's lower text. No stamp means it is not 1st Edition, whatever else the listing says.
On the WOTC printings (1999–2002): a grey drop shadow runs down the right side of the picture frame, and there is no edition stamp. This is the common printing and the cheapest of the three.
Market data
Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.
Across the markets
13% apart- PriceCharting$2
- Our raw sold median$2
Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.
What the series says
Volatility
volatile
90-day band
$1 – $3
Today’s price sits 57% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.
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About Psyduck
Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.
Psyduck is a Common Pokémon card from Fossil (#53, released 1999), illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. It’s a Basic Water-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Lightning ×2.
Card text
Psychic
Your opponent can't play Trainer cards during his or her next turn.
Water
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.
“While lulling its enemies with its vacant look, this wily Pokémon will use psychokinetic powers.”
The Pokémon
While lulling its enemies with its vacant look, this wily POKéMON will use psychokinetic powers.
Card details
- Set
- Fossil
- Number
- #53
- Rarity
- Common
- Released
- 1999
- Pokémon
- All Psyduck cards
- Generation
- Gen I · Kanto
- Artist
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Supertype
- Pokémon
- Subtypes
- Basic
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 50
- National Pokédex
- #54
- Card ID
- base3-53
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Psyduck (Fossil #53) worth?
As of 16 September 2026, Psyduck from Fossil is worth approximately $2 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $450 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Psyduck?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Psyduck from Fossil is worth around $450 — roughly 223× the raw ungraded value of $2.
Should I grade my Psyduck?
Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card actually earns it, the expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $42 — and a PSA 10 would net roughly $373. That assumes a copy clean enough to have a real shot at a high grade.
How often does Psyduck sell?
CardTrack recorded 216 completed sales of Psyduck (Fossil #53) across every grade in the last 90 days, 165 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-15. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.
Is Psyduck rare?
Psyduck is a Common card from Fossil (card #53), released in 1999.