RareTeam Rocket Returns18/1092004PSA 9
Dark Sandslash 18/109 · Team Rocket Returns PSA 9 price
PSA 9 · mint slab
$35
Fair buy $35 · sell $542.9× rawUpdated
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- PSA 9 sales
- 5
- 6 cert-verified
- Last 90 days
- 0
- rare
- Confidence
- Low
- Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
- Latest sale
- 96d ago
- one every ~73d
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 . A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.
No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.
Why $35? 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | eBay · bestoffer | listing#163139736 | $35 |
| 2026-07-02 | eBay · auction | listing#147357890 | $20 |
| 2026-07-02 | eBay · auction | listing#147357895 | $38 |
| 2026-04-20 | eBay · auction | listing#111021109 | $18 |
| 2026-02-06 | eBay · auction | listing#125843454 | $40 |
| 2025-12-22 | eBay · bestoffer | listing#93742699 | $45 |
4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 73 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.
PSA 9 price history
Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 13 sales across 11 months, May 2020 to Sep 2026.
PSA 9 · index · latest
$35▲ 0%over 366 days
2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04
Latest $35 (Sep 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 218% since May 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 12 distinct slabs behind 13 cert-linked sales at this grade — 8.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.
| Cert | Sales of this slab | Between | Gross change |
|---|---|---|---|
| #97981655 | Dec 2024 $16→Jul 2025 $30 | 6–12 months | +93.5% |
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 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $19; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.
1–8 of 11 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($19) 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
37
37.4% of 99 graded
Graded higher
41
PSA 10s above this grade
Total PSA graded
99
every grade, all time
Other graders at a 9: CGC 36 of 105 · BGS 3 of 7 · TAG 2 of 4. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.
Is Dark Sandslash 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
$-5
after fees, all grades
Comes back PSA 9
3830%
of submissions, by the census
PSA 9 outcome
$-58
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.
- 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 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-10-03.
More Dark Sandslash and more from Team Rocket Returns
Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.
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Rocket's Zapdos exTeam Rocket Returns · #106 · 2004$568PSA 10 $9,601
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Rocket's Sneasel exTeam Rocket Returns · #103 · 2004$307PSA 10 $6,900
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CharmeleonTeam Rocket Returns · #110 · 2004$127PSA 10 $8,400
Dark AmpharosTeam Rocket Returns · #2 · 2004$120PSA 10 $2,399
Dark HoundoomTeam Rocket Returns · #5 · 2004$104PSA 10 $4,250
TogeticTeam Rocket Returns · #14 · 2004$98.76PSA 10 $1,375
Dark SteelixTeam Rocket Returns · #10 · 2004$97.00PSA 10 $5,040
Dark SlowkingTeam Rocket Returns · #9 · 2004$92.30PSA 10 $2,291
Dark DragoniteTeam Rocket Returns · #15 · 2004$88.52PSA 10 $1,935
Dark OctilleryTeam Rocket Returns · #8 · 2004$52.05PSA 10 $1,250
Dark ElectrodeTeam Rocket Returns · #4 · 2004$50.00PSA 10 $2,090
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Frequently asked questions
How much is a PSA 9 Dark Sandslash (Team Rocket Returns #18) worth?
As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Dark Sandslash from Team Rocket Returns is worth approximately $35, with a fair range of $35 to $54 — about 2.9× the $12 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 — 4 at auction, 2 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 73 days.
How many PSA 9 Dark Sandslash exist?
PSA has graded 37 copies of Dark Sandslash (Team Rocket Returns #18) a 9, out of 99 submitted — 37.4% of the population, with 41 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.
Should I grade my Dark Sandslash 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 $-5; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3830% of the time.
Is a PSA 9 Dark Sandslash a good investment?
CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Dark Sandslash has 5 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.