Nidoqueen Reverse Holo #9 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 8 Aug 2026Related Nidoqueen & chase cards
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Nidoqueen Reverse Holo #9 comes from the Fire Red & Leaf Green set, a fan favorite era that a lot of collectors grew up opening, and this particular reverse holo print has quietly become one of the more sought after cards from that release. If you are trying to nail down Nidoqueen's value, the short answer is that a raw copy runs $32, while a graded gem mint example can climb all the way up to $984, which tells you just how much condition matters here.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $33, up 242% over the past year, with an all-time high of $33 in August 2026.
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Nidoqueen price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 321 graded, only 38 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $987 | 38 | 19 / 19 |
| PSA 9 | $166 | 103 | 86 / 17 |
| PSA 8 | $52 | 109 | 63 / 46 |
| PSA 7 | $31 | 40 | 27 / 13 |
| PSA 6 | $25 | 15 | 11 / 4 |
| PSA 5 | $20 | 8 | 4 / 4 |
| PSA 4 | $17 | 5 | 2 / 3 |
| PSA 3 | $14 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $13 | 2 | 2 / - |
| PSA 1 | - | 1 | 1 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $33 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 9
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Fighting
- HP
- 120
- Stage
- Stage2
- Weakness
- Grass ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Naoyo Kimura
Attacks
- ToxicGrass
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. Put 2 damage counters instead of 1 on the Defending Pokémon between turns.
- Power Lariat40+Fighting · Colorless · Colorless
Does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each Evolved Pokémon you have in play.
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The collector's take on Nidoqueen
Is Nidoqueen worth grading?
So is Nidoqueen worth grading? It depends on what you are chasing. A PSA 10 sits at 30.8x the raw price, jumping from $32 ungraded to $984 in a gem mint holder, and even a Grade 9 brings in $131, so the difference a single grading tier makes is real and worth understanding before you send a card in. The catch is that hitting that top grade is genuinely hard: centering, edges, and surface all have to line up, and grading fees plus shipping and turnaround time eat into your return if the card comes back a 9 instead of a 10. If your copy already looks clean under a loupe, grading can make a lot of sense. If it has visible wear, you may be better off enjoying it raw or selling it as is.
How rare is Nidoqueen?
We do not have official population numbers to lean on for this one, but Fire Red & Leaf Green is an older set at this point, and reverse holo prints from that era were never produced in the same volume as base rarity cards from more recent sets. That combination of age and a smaller original print run is a big part of why demand has stayed steady, and why gem mint copies command such a premium over a raw card. Scarcity like this tends to reward patience: the harder a clean copy is to find, the more the price gap between raw and PSA 10 tends to hold or grow over time.
Where can you pull Nidoqueen?
Here is the honest part: PackSpy has not recorded a single pull of Nidoqueen Reverse Holo #9 across any of the pack sites we track. That is not a knock on the card, it just reflects how uncommon it is to see one land in a live pack opening. In practice, most collectors end up buying their copy on the secondary market rather than hoping to pull it themselves, and that lines up with what we are seeing across our data. It is a good reminder that opening packs is a gamble more than a plan, most rips do not come close to covering their cost, so if Nidoqueen is the specific card you want, buying it directly is usually the more reliable route.
Questions people ask
How much is Nidoqueen worth?+
A raw, ungraded Nidoqueen Reverse Holo #9 is worth $32. Once graded, the value rises with condition, reaching $131 for a Grade 9 and $984 for a PSA 10, so the grade on the slab makes a real difference to what it is worth.
Is Nidoqueen worth grading?+
It can be, especially since a PSA 10 sells for 30.8x what a raw copy goes for, taking it from $32 up to $984. Just know that gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, and grading fees plus the risk of a lower grade coming back are worth weighing before you send it in.
Why is the Nidoqueen Reverse Holo #9 print worth more than the standard one?+
Reverse holo prints flip the foil pattern onto the card frame instead of just the artwork, and fewer of them were pulled compared to the standard non-holo version in most packs of that era. That relative scarcity is a big reason reverse holo Nidoqueen tends to carry more value than a plain copy of the same card.
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