Bulbasaur — SM Black Star Promos #SM198, PSA 9

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Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · SM Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$41

Fair buy $37 · sell $41 (±10%)2.8× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$15
PSA 9this page$412.8×
PSA 10$976.7×

PSA 9 sales: 3; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 1; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 8d ago; one every ~55d

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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 yesterday. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $71 — 73% above our PSA 9 estimate of $41

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Why $41? 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
2026-02-13	Fanatics · fixedprice	#116785815 sold before	$41
2025-12-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #56662422	$41
2025-10-29	Fanatics · bestoffer	#116785815 sold before	$35
2025-06-25	eBay · bestoffer	listing #48709574	$200
2025-06-15	eBay · fixedprice	listing #101254271	$25
2025-02-09	eBay · auction	listing #55854628	$10

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 55 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 11 sales across 10 months, Feb 2020 to Feb 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$41▲ 0%over 74 days

2026-07-22 → 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. Hover any day for its price on the line.

Latest $41 (Feb 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 105% since Feb 2020

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

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 10 distinct slabs behind 11 cert-linked sales at this grade — 10%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#116785815	Oct 2025 $35→Feb 2026 $41	3–6 months	+17.1%

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 3 PSA 9 sales with a median of $65; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Bulbasaur Holo SM198 Detective Pikachu On Case Figure Collection Pokemon PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$64.99
Pokemon Card Bulbasaur SM198 Black Star Promos PSA 9 Detective Pikachu Mint ENG	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-03	—	$71.71
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectFixedPrice	2026-02-13	116785815	$41.00
2019 Pokemon Sun & Moon Black Star Promo Detective Pikachu Holo Bulbasaur #SM198	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-02-12	—	$41.00
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-12-23	56662422	$40.53
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2025-10-29	116785815	$35.00
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2025-06-25	48709574	$200
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2025-06-15	101254271	$24.99
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Bulbasaur PR-SM SM198 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2025-02-09	55854628	$10.35

1–8 of 9 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($65) sits above 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

149

60.3% of 247 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

247

every grade, all time

Is Bulbasaur 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

$-57

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

6030%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-53

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

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 8 graded sales and a population of 4,409,806 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Bulbasaur (SM Black Star Promos #SM198) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Bulbasaur from SM Black Star Promos is worth approximately $41, with a fair range of $37 to $41 — about 2.8× the $15 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 55 days.

How many PSA 9 Bulbasaur exist?

PSA has graded 149 copies of Bulbasaur (SM Black Star Promos #SM198) a 9, out of 247 submitted — 60.3% of the population, with 23 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Bulbasaur hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-57; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 6030% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Bulbasaur a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Bulbasaur has 3 recorded sales, 1 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.