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Zapdos-EX — Plasma Storm #48, PSA 9

Rare Holo EXPlasma Storm48/1352013PSA 9

Zapdos-EX 48/135 · Plasma Storm PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$101

Fair buy $91 · sell $101 (±10%)7.5× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$14
  • PSA 9this page$1017.5×
  • PSA 10$6,000444×
PSA 9 sales
6
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
6
occasional
Confidence
Medium
6 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
8 Oct 2026
one every ~37d

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: $73 (range $50–$102, moderate confidence, from cert #159794711, checked ). 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 $73
Ours $101
PSA low $50PSA high $102
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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.

No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.

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Why $101? Every PSA 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. A cert number means PSA tied the sale to a specific slab: click it to check the card, grade and serial on psacard.com. We hold 6 PSA 9 sales with a median of $104; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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

2 of 6 cert-verified sales were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 37 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 48 sales across 18 months, Jun 2019 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$101▲ 43%over 366 days

2025-10-14 → 2026-10-15

$60
$70
$80
$90
$100
14 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept15 Oct
The recorded PSA 9 price index, 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 $85 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 673% since Jun 2019

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

5 slabs have sold more than once, across 5 resales — typically 313 days apart, with a median gross price change of +80.3%. That is 5 of the 43 distinct slabs behind 48 cert-linked sales at this grade — 11.6%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#51173607Apr 2026 $67→Sept 2026 $1153–6 months+71.6%
#43577176Jun 2019 $9→Sept 2026 $95Over a year+1017.5%
#43577194Jun 2019 $9→Jun 2026 $80Over a year+841.2%
#97391144Feb 2025 $60→Nov 2025 $366–12 months-40.0%
#43577190Jun 2019 $11→Apr 2020 $196–12 months+80.3%

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.

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

138

27.4% of 504 graded

Graded higher

30

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

504

every grade, all time

Grader9sGradedShare
PSA13850427.4%
CGC91028.8%
BGS31127.3%
SGC2366.7%
TAG090.0%

Share is each grader’s 9s out of everything it has graded. A 9.5 sits between a 9 and a 10; PSA does not give one. Another grader’s slab is its own market and is not in the price above. Totals include slabs graded authentic only.

Is the PSA 9 supply growing?

New PSA 9 slabs from PSA’s weekly counts, each change measured between the two report days shown; the weekly counts end on 28 Sept 2026, so the population above, PSA’s newest reading, can run ahead of them. Resubmissions count as new slabs, so this is the supply that reaches the market, not new copies of the card.

New PSA 9s over 4 weeks

+3

134 → 137, 31 Aug 2026 – 28 Sept 2026

New PSA 9s since 24 Jul 2026

+5

132 → 137, 24 Jul 2026 – 28 Sept 2026

New slabs against sales: about 2.3 new PSA 9 slabs a month (24 Jul 2026 – 28 Sept 2026) against about 2 PSA 9 sales a month that we recorded over the last 90 days: 1.1 new slabs for every recorded sale. Our record holds the sales we can see (eBay, PSA’s cert-verified sales and the auction houses we read), not every sale, and most slabs graded are never sold.

PSA 9 price against PSA’s PSA 9 count

PSA 9 price
$101$101
24 Jul 202628 Sept 2026
PSA 9 copies graded
137132
24 Jul 202628 Sept 2026

Both lines on PSA’s weekly report days for Zapdos-EX. Side by side, not cause and effect.

Stepping up to a PSA 10

One grade apart, one Zapdos-EX. Today’s prices are each page’s headline; the line over time is our recorded price index for both grades.

A PSA 10 sells for $6,000 against $101 for a PSA 9: $5,899 more, or 59.4× the price of a 9.

PSA 10 price ÷ PSA 9 price
59.4×1.0×
1 Jul 202115 Oct 2026

On the index a PSA 10 was 59.4× a 9 on 15 Oct 2026, 6.6× on 16 Jul 2026, and 5.8× on 9 Oct 2025. A wider gap means the 10 has pulled further ahead of the 9.

Is Zapdos-EX 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

$278

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

27.4%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-28

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$116

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 28 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Zapdos-EX and more from Plasma Storm

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

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Citation

Zapdos-EX (Plasma Storm #48) — PSA 9 market value USD $101, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/plasma-storm/zapdos-ex-48/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Zapdos-EX (Plasma Storm #48) worth?

As of 15 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Zapdos-EX from Plasma Storm is worth approximately $101, with a fair range of $91 to $101 — about 7.5× the $14 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 37 days.

How many PSA 9 Zapdos-EX exist?

PSA has graded 138 copies of Zapdos-EX (Plasma Storm #48) a 9, out of 504 submitted — 27.4% of the population, with 30 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Zapdos-EX hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $116 grading fee is about $278; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 27.4% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Zapdos-EX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Zapdos-EX has 6 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.