Alolan Vulpix VSTAR — Silver Tempest #197, PSA 9

Rare RainbowSilver Tempest197/1952022PSA 9

Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · Silver Tempest PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$37

Fair buy $25 · sell $371.3× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$30
PSA 9this page$371.3×
PSA 10$903.0×

PSA 9 sales: 4; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 3; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 62d ago; one every ~10d

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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 $37? 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
2026-09-13	eBay · fixedprice	listing #75436753	$37
2026-08-05	eBay · bestoffer	listing #104328689	$35
2026-07-26	eBay · fixedprice	listing #142826596	$26
2026-07-20	Fanatics · auction	#148672296	$19
2026-07-16	eBay · bestoffer	listing #133029150	$30
2026-06-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #72807200 sold before	$27

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 86 sales across 33 months, Jan 2023 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$37▲ 107%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 $37 (Sep 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 32% since Jan 2023

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

4 slabs have sold more than once, across 4 resales — typically 340 days apart, with a median gross price change of +84.0%. That is 4 of the 79 distinct slabs behind 86 cert-linked sales at this grade — 5.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#72807200	Jul 2025 $26→Jun 2026 $27	6–12 months	+3.8%
#75077457	Sept 2025 $17→Feb 2026 $33	3–6 months	+92.1%
#73213268	May 2024 $13→Oct 2025 $23	Over a year	+84.0%
#69475794	Jan 2023 $28→Mar 2023 $19	Under 3 months	-33.9%

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 4 PSA 9 sales with a median of $23; 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
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-13	75436753	$36.65
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-05	104328689	$35.00
2022 Pokemon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix Vstar Secret Rare 197/195 \| PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-04	—	$35.00
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-07-26	142826596	$25.99
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectAuction	2026-07-20	148672296	$19.20
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-16	133029150	$29.99
2022 Pokémon Silver Tempest Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 197/195 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-06-26	72807200	$27.00
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Silver Tempest Rainbow Rare Alolan Vulpix VSTAR #197	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-02-02	—	$18.00

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

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($23) 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

495

37% of 1,338 graded

Graded higher

677

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

1,338

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 97 of 306 · TAG 13 of 31. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Alolan Vulpix VSTAR 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-48

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3680%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-74

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 31 graded sales and a population of 4,410,847 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Alolan Vulpix VSTAR (Silver Tempest #197) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Alolan Vulpix VSTAR from Silver Tempest is worth approximately $37, with a fair range of $25 to $37 — about 1.3× the $30 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, 3 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 10 days.

How many PSA 9 Alolan Vulpix VSTAR exist?

PSA has graded 495 copies of Alolan Vulpix VSTAR (Silver Tempest #197) a 9, out of 1,338 submitted — 37% of the population, with 677 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Alolan Vulpix VSTAR hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-48; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3680% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Alolan Vulpix VSTAR a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Alolan Vulpix VSTAR has 4 recorded sales, 3 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.