Rare Holo EXSandstorm97/1002003PSA 9

Kabutops ex 97/100 · Sandstorm PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$694

Fair buy $625 · sell $694 (±10%)6.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$105
PSA 9this page$6946.6×
PSA 10$2,50024×

PSA 9 sales: 24; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 15; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 15 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 6d ago; one every ~2d

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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 →

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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 $694? 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
2026-09-12	eBay · fixedprice	listing #145990539	$550
2026-09-12	eBay · fixedprice	listing #27924952	$540
2026-09-10	eBay · fixedprice	listing #146069989 sold before	$450
2026-09-06	eBay · auction	listing #28671960	$388
2026-08-24	eBay · auction	listing #28671960	$400
2026-08-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #94992144 sold before	$360

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 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 — 47 sales across 13 months, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$694▲ 335%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

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 $694 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 396% since Oct 2025

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

6 slabs have sold more than once, across 6 resales — typically 174 days apart, with a median gross price change of +96.6%. That is 6 of the 39 distinct slabs behind 47 cert-linked sales at this grade — 15.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#146069989	Mar 2026 $248→Sept 2026 $450	3–6 months	+81.8%
#94992144	Jun 2026 $343→Aug 2026 $360	Under 3 months	+5.0%
#107888636	Nov 2025 $183→Aug 2026 $360	6–12 months	+97.3%
#61647300	Mar 2026 $240→May 2026 $380	Under 3 months	+58.3%
#73387218	Nov 2025 $161→May 2026 $357	3–6 months	+120.9%
#143181581	Feb 2026 $178→Apr 2026 $350	Under 3 months	+96.6%

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 24 PSA 9 sales with a median of $388; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2003 Pokemon EX Sandstorm - Kabutops EX Holo #97 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$699
2003 POKEMON EX SANDSTORM #97 KABUTOPS EX HOLO PSA 9 - E Reader Silver Border	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$550
PSA 9 Kabutops EX Holo 97/100 Sandstorm Pokemon	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$662
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-12	27924952	$540
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-12	145990539	$550
2003 POKEMON EX SANDSTORM #97 KABUTOPS EX-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-11	—	$540
2003 POKEMON EX SANDSTORM #97 KABUTOPS EX-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-11	—	$550
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-10	146069989	$450
2003 POKEMON EX SANDSTORM #97 KABUTOPS EX-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-09	—	$450
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-06	28671960	$388
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-08-24	28671960	$400
Pokemon Kabutops ex Holo EX Sandstorm 97/100 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-23	—	$400
2003 Pokémon Sandstorm Kabutops ex 97/100 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-22	94992144	$360
2003 Pokemon EX Sandstorm Holo Kabutops EX #97 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$348
2003 Pokemon EX Sandstorm Holo Kabutops ex #97 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-16	—	$240

1–8 of 15 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($388) 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

404

25.1% of 1,607 graded

Graded higher

103

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

1,607

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 81 of 376 · TAG 2 of 24. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Kabutops 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

$256

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2620%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$495

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$94

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 92 graded sales and a population of 1,891,346 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Kabutops ex (Sandstorm #97) — PSA 9 market value USD $694, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/sandstorm/kabutops-ex-97/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Kabutops ex (Sandstorm #97) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Kabutops ex from Sandstorm is worth approximately $694, with a fair range of $625 to $694 — about 6.6× the $105 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 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Kabutops ex exist?

PSA has graded 404 copies of Kabutops ex (Sandstorm #97) a 9, out of 1,607 submitted — 25.1% of the population, with 103 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Kabutops ex hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $94 grading fee is about $256; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2620% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Kabutops ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Kabutops ex has 24 recorded sales, 15 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.