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Fire Energy — HeartGold & SoulSilver #116, PSA 9

CommonHeartGold & SoulSilver116/1232010PSA 9

Fire Energy 116/123 · HeartGold & SoulSilver PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$42

Fair buy $38 · sell $50 (±10%)1.7× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$25
  • PSA 9this page$421.7×
  • PSA 10$1,00039×
PSA 9 sales
5
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
2
rare
Confidence
Low
Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale
58d ago
one every ~35d

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

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Why $42? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-16eBay · auctionlisting#73411815sold before$42
2026-07-26eBay · auctionlisting#137894559$35
2026-07-12eBay · auctionlisting#137894559$49
2026-06-07eBay · bestofferlisting#73411815sold before$110
2025-06-02eBay · auctionlisting#94003393$22
2025-05-05eBay · fixedpricelisting#101263717$30

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 35 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 13 sales across 11 months, Oct 2022 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$42 40%over 2 years

2024-07-01 → 2026-09-22

$20
$30
$40
1 JulOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul22 SeptRaw NM2024-07-01 · $302024-08-01 · $302024-09-01 · $302024-10-01 · $302024-11-01 · $302024-12-01 · $302025-01-01 · $302025-02-01 · $302025-03-01 · $302025-04-01 · $302025-05-01 · $302025-06-01 · $242025-07-01 · $252025-08-01 · $252025-09-01 · $442025-10-01 · $442025-11-01 · $442025-12-01 · $442026-01-01 · $442026-02-01 · $442026-03-01 · $442026-04-01 · $442026-05-01 · $442026-06-01 · $462026-07-01 · $462026-07-14 · $232026-07-22 · $232026-07-23 · $232026-07-24 · $232026-07-25 · $232026-07-26 · $352026-07-27 · $352026-07-28 · $352026-07-29 · $352026-07-30 · $352026-07-31 · $352026-08-01 · $352026-08-02 · $352026-08-03 · $352026-08-04 · $352026-08-05 · $352026-08-06 · $352026-08-07 · $352026-08-08 · $352026-08-09 · $352026-08-10 · $352026-08-11 · $352026-08-12 · $352026-08-13 · $352026-08-14 · $352026-08-15 · $352026-08-16 · $352026-08-17 · $352026-08-18 · $352026-08-19 · $352026-08-20 · $352026-08-21 · $352026-08-22 · $352026-08-23 · $352026-08-25 · $352026-08-26 · $352026-08-27 · $352026-08-29 · $352026-08-30 · $352026-08-31 · $352026-09-01 · $352026-09-02 · $352026-09-03 · $352026-09-04 · $352026-09-05 · $352026-09-06 · $352026-09-07 · $352026-09-08 · $352026-09-09 · $352026-09-10 · $352026-09-11 · $352026-09-12 · $352026-09-13 · $352026-09-14 · $352026-09-15 · $352026-09-16 · $422026-09-17 · $422026-09-18 · $422026-09-19 · $422026-09-20 · $422026-09-21 · $422026-09-22 · $42
The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above.

Latest $42 (Sep 2026, 1 sale) · 163% since Oct 2022

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

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 11 distinct slabs behind 13 cert-linked sales at this grade — 9.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#73411815Jun 2026 $110Sept 2026 $423–6 months-61.8%

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 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 $49; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($49) sits above 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

34

35.8% of 95 graded

Graded higher

10

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

95

every grade, all time

Is Fire Energy 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

$38

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3860%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-58

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$75

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 sideeach on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately playedthe same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs soldwhat the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentumthe 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higherthe Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population historythe weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 16 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

More Fire Energy and more from HeartGold & SoulSilver

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

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Fire Energy (HeartGold & SoulSilver #116) — PSA 9 market value USD $42, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/heartgold-soulsilver/fire-energy-116/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Fire Energy (HeartGold & SoulSilver #116) worth?

As of 22 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Fire Energy from HeartGold & SoulSilver is worth approximately $42, with a fair range of $38 to $50 — about 1.7× the $25 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 — 4 at auction, 1 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 35 days.

How many PSA 9 Fire Energy exist?

PSA has graded 34 copies of Fire Energy (HeartGold & SoulSilver #116) a 9, out of 95 submitted — 35.8% of the population, with 10 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Fire Energy hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $75 grading fee is about $38; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3860% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Fire Energy a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Fire Energy has 5 recorded sales, 2 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.