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Dark Dragonite — Team Rocket #5, PSA 9

Rare HoloTeam Rocket5/822000PSA 9

Dark Dragonite 5/82 · Team Rocket PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$85

Fair buy $85 · sell $85Updated

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PSA 9 sales
9
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
7
occasional
Confidence
Medium
7 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
10d ago
one every ~2d

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.

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Why $85? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-04eBay · fixedpricelisting#93122885$580
2026-09-02eBay · bestofferlisting#149112390$600
2026-08-31eBay · fixedpricelisting#27654914sold before$599
2026-08-13eBay · fixedpricelisting#74322685$680
2026-08-02eBay · auctionlisting#93469159$526
2026-08-02eBay · auctionlisting#159231922$595

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

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 254 sales across 34 quarters, Q3 2017 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$85 52%over 2 years

2024-05-01 → 2026-09-21

$200
$400
$600
1 MayAugSeptOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul21 SeptRaw NM2024-05-01 · $1752024-06-01 · $1752024-07-01 · $1512024-08-01 · $1512024-09-01 · $1512024-10-01 · $1762024-11-01 · $1762024-12-01 · $1762025-01-01 · $1862025-02-01 · $1872025-03-01 · $1852025-04-01 · $1832025-05-01 · $1992025-06-01 · $1992025-07-01 · $1992025-08-01 · $1992025-09-01 · $1992025-10-01 · $1992025-11-01 · $1992025-12-01 · $1992026-01-01 · $1992026-02-01 · $2222026-03-01 · $2282026-04-01 · $2282026-05-01 · $2532026-06-01 · $2812026-07-01 · $2812026-08-01 · $3102026-08-29 · $5252026-08-30 · $5252026-08-31 · $5252026-09-01 · $5142026-09-02 · $5252026-09-03 · $5252026-09-04 · $5252026-09-05 · $5252026-09-06 · $5252026-09-07 · $5252026-09-08 · $5252026-09-09 · $5252026-09-10 · $5252026-09-11 · $5252026-09-12 · $5252026-09-13 · $5082026-09-14 · $5802026-09-15 · $5802026-09-16 · $5992026-09-17 · $5992026-09-18 · $5992026-09-19 · $5992026-09-20 · $5992026-09-21 · $85
The recorded PSA 9 price index, closing on the figure above.

Latest $600 (Q3 2026, 12 sales) · 2400% since Q3 2017

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

31 slabs have sold more than once, across 35 resales — typically 235 days apart, with a median gross price change of +42.6%. That is 31 of the 207 distinct slabs behind 255 cert-linked sales at this grade — 15%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#27654914Apr 2020 $80Aug 2026 $599Over a year+648.8%
#43414453May 2020 $120Jul 2026 $580Over a year+383.3%
#96167536Apr 2026 $499Jun 2026 $499Under 3 months+0.1%
#85081392Feb 2024 $122May 2026 $520Over a year+326.3%
#46837535Sept 2020 $230Mar 2025 $270Apr 2026 $560Over a year+143.5%
#122051634Jan 2026 $350Apr 2026 $500Under 3 months+42.9%
#68856246Mar 2023 $136Nov 2025 $464Feb 2026 $415Under 3 months+206.6%
#43682425May 2020 $209Jan 2026 $364Over a year+74.2%
#106857057Oct 2025 $210Dec 2025 $400Under 3 months+90.5%
#45759205Aug 2025 $305Nov 2025 $342Under 3 months+12.2%

Showing the 10 most recent of 31 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 9 PSA 9 sales with a median of $599; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

1–8 of 12 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($599) 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

988

10.2% of 9,716 graded

Graded higher

53

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

9,716

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 640 of 3,623 · BGS 302 of 732 · TAG 19 of 296. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Dark Dragonite 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

$-195

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

1050%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-170

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$71

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 sideeach on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately playedthe same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs soldwhat the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentumthe 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higherthe Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population historythe weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 131 graded sales and a population of 1,899,215 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

More Dark Dragonite and more from Team Rocket

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

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Dark Dragonite (Team Rocket #5) — PSA 9 market value USD $85, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/team-rocket/dark-dragonite-5/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Dark Dragonite (Team Rocket #5) worth?

As of 21 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Dark Dragonite from Team Rocket is worth approximately $85, with a fair range of $85 to $85 — about 0.5× the $184 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 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Dark Dragonite exist?

PSA has graded 988 copies of Dark Dragonite (Team Rocket #5) a 9, out of 9,716 submitted — 10.2% of the population, with 53 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Dark Dragonite hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $-195; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 1050% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Dark Dragonite a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Dark Dragonite has 9 recorded sales, 7 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.