Illustration RareSurging Sparks204/1912024PSA 9

Mesprit 204/191 · Surging Sparks PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$24

Fair buy $21 · sell $281.7× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$14
PSA 9this page$241.7×
PSA 10$1228.8×

PSA 9 sales: 25; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 22; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 22 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 7d ago; one every ~1d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of 7 days ago. 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 $24 — in line with our PSA 9 estimate of $24

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Why $24? 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
2026-09-26	eBay · auction	listing #148658268	$33
2026-09-24	eBay · auction	listing #167131418	$16
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #103119873	$25
2026-09-23	eBay · bestoffer	listing #166533811	$24
2026-09-13	eBay · bestoffer	listing #138084604	$24
2026-09-12	eBay · bestoffer	listing #103321630	$34

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

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 664 sales across 22 months, Jan 2025 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$24▲ 37%over 366 days

2025-10-07 → 2026-10-08

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 $23 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 5% since Jan 2025

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

37 slabs have sold more than once, across 38 resales — typically 180 days apart, with a median gross price change of +29.0%. That is 37 of the 603 distinct slabs behind 664 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#113437924	Jul 2025 $11→Aug 2026 $25	Over a year	+127.3%
#111194125	Jun 2025 $14→Aug 2026 $46	Over a year	+242.2%
#153277205	May 2026 $25→Aug 2026 $25	Under 3 months	+0.0%
#135965503	Mar 2026 $25→Aug 2026 $26	3–6 months	+4.0%
#114461940	Jul 2025 $4→Jul 2026 $22	Over a year	+438.8%
#105041442	Apr 2025 $18→Jul 2026 $22	Over a year	+22.2%
#103991429	Oct 2025 $19→May 2026 $26	6–12 months	+40.5%
#109483268	Dec 2025 $18→May 2026 $20	3–6 months	+11.1%
#106248189	May 2025 $13→May 2026 $27	Over a year	+113.2%
#105885295	Apr 2025 $9→May 2026 $15	Over a year	+70.4%

Showing the 10 most recent of 37 slabs with a history. 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 25 PSA 9 sales with a median of $24; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
PSA 9 POKEMON 2024 Surging Sparks Illustration Rare Full Art MESPRIT #204	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$22.50
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-26	148658268	$32.53
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	103119873	$25.00
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-24	167131418	$15.50
2024 POKEMON SSP EN ILLUSTRATION RARE MESPRIT #204 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-23	—	$15.50
PSA 9 2024 POKEMON SSP EN-SURGING SPARKS \| ILLUSTRATION RARE MESPRIT 204	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-23	—	$25.00
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-23	166533811	$23.75
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-13	138084604	$23.50
Mesprit PSA 9 MINT - 204/191 - Surging Sparks - Illustration Rare Holo Pokemon	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-12	—	$37.88
2024 Pokémon Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-12	103321630	$34.22
Pokémon Mesprit Sv08 Surging Sparks Illustration Rare Holo 204/191 PSA 9 Eng	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-05	—	$25.00
The Pokémon Company 2024 Surging Sparks Mesprit 204/191 IR Holo EN PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-04	—	$21.99
2024 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Surging Sparks IR Mesprit #204 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-20	—	$18.00
2024 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Surging Sparks IR Mesprit #204 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-02-22	—	$19.20

1–8 of 14 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

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

3,601

57.1% of 6,303 graded

Graded higher

2,000

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

6,303

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 121 of 238. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Mesprit 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

$-40

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5680%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-71

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 115 graded sales and a population of 5,116,885 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Mesprit (Surging Sparks #204) — PSA 9 market value USD $24, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/surging-sparks/mesprit-204/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Mesprit (Surging Sparks #204) worth?

As of 8 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Mesprit from Surging Sparks is worth approximately $24, with a fair range of $21 to $28 — about 1.7× 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, 3 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Mesprit exist?

PSA has graded 3,601 copies of Mesprit (Surging Sparks #204) a 9, out of 6,303 submitted — 57.1% of the population, with 2,000 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Mesprit 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 $-40; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5680% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Mesprit a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Mesprit has 25 recorded sales, 22 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.