Zapdos — SM Black Star Promos #SM159, PSA 9

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Zapdos PR-SM SM159 · SM Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$54

Fair buy $48 · sell $68 (±10%)2.9× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$18
PSA 9this page$542.9×
PSA 10$50027×

PSA 9 sales: 3; in our ledger
Last 90 days: 1; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 89d ago; psa 9

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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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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $315 — 485% above our PSA 9 estimate of $54

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PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$54▲ 65%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

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.

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 $68; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 0

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2019 Pokemon SM Black Star Promo Team Up Prerelease #SM159 Zapdos Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-08	—	$149
2019 POKEMON SM BLACK STAR PROMO TEAM UP PRERELEASE #SM159 ZAPDOS-HOLO PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-08	—	$60.04
2019 Pokemon SM Black Star Promo Team Up Prerelease #SM159 Zapdos Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-03-05	—	$68.00

1–3 of 3 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($68) 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

150

54.2% of 277 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

277

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 2 of 3. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Zapdos 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

$13

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5520%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-45

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.

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 17 graded sales and a population of 4,409,831 · 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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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Zapdos (SM Black Star Promos #SM159) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Zapdos from SM Black Star Promos is worth approximately $54, with a fair range of $48 to $68 — about 2.9× the $18 raw near-mint price.

How many PSA 9 Zapdos exist?

PSA has graded 150 copies of Zapdos (SM Black Star Promos #SM159) a 9, out of 277 submitted — 54.2% of the population, with 40 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Zapdos hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $13; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5520% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Zapdos a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Zapdos 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.