Rare SecretPlasma Freeze117/1162013PSA 9

Empoleon 117/116 · Plasma Freeze PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,400

Fair buy $765 · sell $1,4002.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$534
PSA 9this page$1,4002.6×
PSA 10$15,00028×

PSA 9 sales: 2; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 2; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 47d ago; one every ~17d

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

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $1,756 (range $1,253–$2,423, moderate confidence, from cert #49895028, checked Sept 2026). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range

PSA $1,756

Ours $1,400

PSA low $1,253PSA high $2,423

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

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Why $1,400? 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
2026-08-20	eBay · auction	listing #49895028	$1,400
2026-08-06	eBay · auction	listing #154869795	$1,727
2026-05-20	eBay · bestoffer	listing #92151405	$1,026
2026-05-18	eBay · auction	listing #27969861 sold before	$1,025
2026-05-01	eBay · bestoffer	listing #28229609	$1,800
2026-03-16	eBay · bestoffer	listing #112048484	$800

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 17 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 36 sales across 23 months, Mar 2018 to Aug 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,400▲ 148%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 $1,564 (Aug 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 820% since Mar 2018

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

4 slabs have sold more than once, across 7 resales — typically 105 days apart, with a median gross price change of +45.1%. That is 4 of the 29 distinct slabs behind 38 cert-linked sales at this grade — 13.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#27969861	Jun 2020 $135→Sept 2020 $250→May 2026 $1,025	Over a year	+659.3%
#68105802	Jan 2025 $600→Feb 2026 $552	Over a year	-8.0%
#62106907	Apr 2023 $305→Mar 2025 $455→May 2025 $660	Under 3 months	+116.4%
#26563221	Mar 2018 $190→Jun 2018 $43→Aug 2018 $44	Under 3 months	-76.8%

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 2 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,564; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-20	49895028	$1,400
2013 Pokemon B & W Plasma Freeze #117 Empoleon PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-19	—	$1,400
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-06	154869795	$1,727
2013 POKEMON BLACK & WHITE PLASMA FREEZE #117 EMPOLEON PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-05	—	$1,727
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-05-20	92151405	$1,026
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-05-18	27969861	$1,025
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-05-01	28229609	$1,800
2013 Pokémon Plasma Freeze Empoleon 117/116 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-03-16	112048484	$800

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

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

101

21.2% of 476 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

476

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 9 of 69. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Empoleon 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

$1,241

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2250%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$689

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$177

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 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 32 graded sales and a population of 1,306,301 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Empoleon (Plasma Freeze #117) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Empoleon from Plasma Freeze is worth approximately $1,400, with a fair range of $765 to $1,400 — about 2.6× the $534 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 — 3 at auction, 3 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 17 days.

How many PSA 9 Empoleon exist?

PSA has graded 101 copies of Empoleon (Plasma Freeze #117) a 9, out of 476 submitted — 21.2% of the population, with 34 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Empoleon hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $177 grading fee is about $1,241; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2250% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Empoleon a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Empoleon has 2 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.