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Lugia — Team Up #131, PSA 9

Rare HoloTeam Up131/1812019PSA 9

Lugia 131/181 · Team Up PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$222

Fair buy $200 · sell $222 (±10%)9.7× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$23
  • PSA 9this page$2229.7×
  • PSA 10$5,500239×
PSA 9 sales
9
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
6
occasional
Confidence
Medium
6 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
16d ago
one every ~9d

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $206 (range $148–$289, high confidence, from cert #153572126, checked ). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range
PSA $206
Ours $222
PSA low $148PSA high $289
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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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Cheapest ask $399 — 80% above our PSA 9 estimate of $222

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Why $222? 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
2026-09-21eBay · auctionlisting#142406817$136
2026-09-18eBay · auctionlisting#171222336$188
2026-09-14eBay · bestofferlisting#79830025$250
2026-08-08eBay · bestofferlisting#153572126$240
2026-07-30eBay · auctionlisting#159287822$223
2026-07-11eBay · auctionlisting#159287822$241

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 42 sales across 25 months, May 2021 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$222▲ 686%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

$20
$50
$100
$200
5 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept6 OctRaw NM
Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 9×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. 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 $222 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 122% since May 2021

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

3 slabs have sold more than once, across 3 resales. That is 3 of the 37 distinct slabs behind 42 cert-linked sales at this grade — 8.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#146258663Mar 2026 $60→Jun 2026 $61Under 3 months+1.7%
#95134258Feb 2025 $11→Apr 2025 $23Under 3 months+109.1%
#56332983Jan 2023 $20→Dec 2023 $136–12 months-37.5%

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 9 PSA 9 sales with a median of $200; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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

204

42.8% of 477 graded

Graded higher

107

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

477

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 72 of 231 · BGS 10 of 16 · TAG 4 of 11. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Lugia 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

$1,196

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4210%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-26

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$225

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 18 graded sales and a population of 4,409,993 · 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 Lugia (Team Up #131) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Lugia from Team Up is worth approximately $222, with a fair range of $200 to $222 — about 9.7× the $23 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 9 days.

How many PSA 9 Lugia exist?

PSA has graded 204 copies of Lugia (Team Up #131) a 9, out of 477 submitted — 42.8% of the population, with 107 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Lugia hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $225 grading fee is about $1,196; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4210% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Lugia a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Lugia has 9 recorded sales, 6 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.