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Dark Blastoise 20/82 · Team Rocket PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$84

Fair buy $72 · sell $842.8× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$30
PSA 9this page$842.8×
PSA 10$60020×

PSA 9 sales: 13; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 9; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 9 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 5d ago; one every ~3d

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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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Why $84? 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
2026-09-23	eBay · fixedprice	listing #23388895	$75
2026-09-23	eBay · auction	listing #54426172 sold before	$105
2026-09-06	eBay · fixedprice	listing #57574138	$100
2026-09-03	eBay · auction	listing #54426172 sold before	$84
2026-08-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #155107002	$80
2026-08-22	eBay · fixedprice	listing #69131372 sold before	$89

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

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 165 sales across 30 quarters, Q2 2018 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$84▲ 90%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 $89 (Q3 2026, 11 sales) · ▲ 1383% since Q2 2018

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

9 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 524 days apart, with a median gross price change of -4.1%. That is 9 of the 140 distinct slabs behind 165 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#54426172	Mar 2025 $45→Sept 2026 $84	Over a year	+86.7%
#69131372	Jun 2026 $92→Aug 2026 $89	Under 3 months	-4.1%
#50587725	Sept 2021 $50→May 2026 $72	Over a year	+44.0%
#52669124	Feb 2021 $125→Apr 2026 $79	Over a year	-36.6%
#68856241	Jan 2023 $46→Mar 2026 $70	Over a year	+52.2%
#72722167	Apr 2023 $41→Oct 2024 $37	Over a year	-10.1%
#80262671	Dec 2023 $54→Sept 2024 $48	6–12 months	-11.9%
#56394568	Aug 2023 $26→Jun 2024 $31	6–12 months	+19.2%
#47118299	Dec 2020 $89→Jun 2021 $58→Jun 2022 $30	6–12 months	-66.3%

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 13 PSA 9 sales with a median of $93; 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
2000 POKEMON ROCKET #20 DARK BLASTOISE PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$103
2000 POKEMON ROCKET #20 DARK BLASTOISE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$75.00
2000 POKEMON ROCKET #20 DARK BLASTOISE PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-28	—	$200
2000 POKEMON ROCKET #20 DARK BLASTOISE PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$118
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-23	54426172	$105
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-23	23388895	$75.00
DARK BLASTOISE 2000 POKEMON TEAM ROCKET 20/82 RARE HOLO PSA 9 Q0481	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-22	—	$105
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-06	57574138	$99.99
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-03	54426172	$84.00
DARK BLASTOISE 2000 POKEMON TEAM ROCKET 20/82 RARE HOLO PSA 9 Q0481	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-02	—	$84.00
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-24	155107002	$80.00
2000 Pokémon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise 20/82 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-08-22	69131372	$88.62
2000 Pokemon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise #20 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-22	—	$98.40
2000 Pokemon Team Rocket Dark Blastoise #20 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-27	—	$79.20

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

730

24.8% of 2,946 graded

Graded higher

167

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

2,946

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 503 of 2,267 · BGS 28 of 105 · TAG 12 of 102. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Dark Blastoise 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

$-22

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2550%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-27

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 84 graded sales and a population of 1,892,678 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Dark Blastoise (Team Rocket #20) — PSA 9 market value USD $84, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/team-rocket/dark-blastoise-20/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Dark Blastoise (Team Rocket #20) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Dark Blastoise from Team Rocket is worth approximately $84, with a fair range of $72 to $84 — about 2.8× 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 3 days.

How many PSA 9 Dark Blastoise exist?

PSA has graded 730 copies of Dark Blastoise (Team Rocket #20) a 9, out of 2,946 submitted — 24.8% of the population, with 167 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Dark Blastoise 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 $-22; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2550% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Dark Blastoise a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Dark Blastoise has 13 recorded sales, 9 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.