Lugia — HGSS Black Star Promos #HGSS02, PSA 9

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Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · HGSS Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$2,749

Fair buy $1,473 · sell $2,74919× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$142
PSA 9this page$2,74919×
PSA 10$144,0001011×

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

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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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Why $2,749? 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	Fanatics · fixedprice	#72046164 sold before	$2,749
2026-09-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #40754689 sold before	$8,421
2026-08-25	Fanatics · bestoffer	#73938760	$1,999
2026-08-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #40754709	$1,863
2026-08-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #67611362 sold before	$1,600
2026-06-03	eBay · auction	listing #72046164 sold before	$1,374

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 46 sales across 30 months, Apr 2019 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$2,749▲ 13×over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 18×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. 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 $5,585 (Sep 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 42862% since Apr 2019

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

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 12 resales — typically 731 days apart, with a median gross price change of +512.7%. That is 8 of the 36 distinct slabs behind 48 cert-linked sales at this grade — 22.2%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#72046164	Jun 2024 $100→Jun 2026 $1,374→Sept 2026 $2,749	3–6 months	+2649.0%
#40754689	Jul 2025 $225→Oct 2025 $349→Sept 2026 $8,421	6–12 months	+3643.4%
#67611362	Feb 2023 $133→Nov 2025 $261→Aug 2026 $1,600	6–12 months	+1103.6%
#41060420	Mar 2020 $16→May 2026 $1,800	Over a year	+11142.9%
#41060411	Mar 2020 $32→May 2026 $840	Over a year	+2525.0%
#41060409	Feb 2020 $18→Apr 2026 $770	Over a year	+4300.0%
#41060400	Nov 2020 $100→Jan 2021 $175→Feb 2026 $500	Over a year	+400.0%
#40754698	Jul 2025 $225→Sept 2025 $349	Under 3 months	+55.1%

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 10 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,899; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2010 POKEMON HEARTGOLD & SOULSILVER PROMO #HGSS02 LUGIA-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-03	—	$10,000
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectFixedPrice	2026-09-25	72046164	$2,749
2010 Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver Promo Holo Lugia #HGSS02 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-24	—	$2,749
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-23	40754689	$8,421
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2026-08-25	73938760	$1,999
2010 Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver Promo Holo Lugia #HGSS02 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-08-24	—	$1,999
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-24	67611362	$1,600
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-24	40754709	$1,863
Pokemon Lugia HGSS02 Promo Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-23	—	$1,600
2010 Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver Promo #HGSS02 Lugia Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-23	—	$2,600
2010 Pokémon HGSS Black Star Promos Lugia PR-HS HGSS02 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-06-03	72046164	$1,374
2010 Pokemon HG & SS Promo #HGSS02 Lugia - Holo PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-02	—	$1,374
Pokemon HGSS Lugia Holo Black Star Promo HGSS02 PSA 9 Mint 2010	PSA 9	eBay	2026-05-22	—	$1,800

1–8 of 13 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($1,899) 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

104

18.8% of 552 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

552

every grade, all time

Is Lugia 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

$5,345

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2050%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$2,234

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$373

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 38 graded sales and a population of 1,306,370 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Lugia (HGSS Black Star Promos #HGSS02) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Lugia from HGSS Black Star Promos is worth approximately $2,749, with a fair range of $1,473 to $2,749 — about 19× the $142 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 — 1 at auction, 4 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Lugia exist?

PSA has graded 104 copies of Lugia (HGSS Black Star Promos #HGSS02) a 9, out of 552 submitted — 18.8% of the population, with 18 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Lugia hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $373 grading fee is about $5,345; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2050% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Lugia a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Lugia has 10 recorded sales, 6 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.