Zapdos #15/62 from Pokemon Fossil (1999)

ZAPDOS #15/62 - FOSSIL

Set
Pokemon Fossil (Base series)
Number
15/62
Rarity
Rare Holo
Card type
Pokémon - Basic (Lightning)
Artist
Mitsuhiro Arita
Released
(1999-10-10)
Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
$168.18 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
6 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
In our machines
1 in the $500.00 machine
A legendary thunderbird Pokémon whose anger is said to cause storms. Some say it has lived above the clouds for thousands of years.

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Zapdos is in the $500.00 machine right now - PSA 9 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.

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ABOUT THIS CARD

Zapdos is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Fossil, card 15 of 62, released October 10, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.

VALUE

What is Zapdos #15 from Fossil worth?

Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Zapdos #15 (Fossil) carries a market reference of $168.18 USD for the 1stEditionHolofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $478.00 (PSA 9).

Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB

Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.

100Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-06-09: index 100.0Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-07-09: index 163.8Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-07-28: index 142.5Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-08-03: index 131.9Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-08-07: index 186.52026-06-092026-08-07
Graded slab values only. Indexed to 100 at each grade series' first observation - relative movement, not dollar levels; the tables below carry the dollars. Solid lines are Rip Station marks (first-party estimates). Raw/ungraded reference (not plotted): $168.18 USD (TCGplayer market price, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11).
Graded slab values - Rip Station marks (first-party estimates, USD). Not raw/ungraded prices.
DateGraderGradeEstimated slab value (USD)
2026-06-09CGC8$87.00
2026-06-09PSA8$99.98
2026-07-09PSA8$227.50
2026-07-28PSA9$142.50
2026-08-03PSA5$20.00
2026-08-07PSA9$453.90

PULL RATE

What are the odds of pulling Zapdos #15?

From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Fossil boosters. With 15 cards sharing that slot, pulling Zapdos specifically works out to roughly 1 in 45 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $500.00 machine right now, 1 of 519 loaded cards is this card - about 0.19% per rip.

Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 15 eligible cards.

POP REPORT

Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB

Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.

GraderGradeCopies
CGC81
PSA92
PSA83
PSA51
Total7

IN OUR MACHINES

Is Zapdos #15 in a Rip Station machine?

Yes. 1 graded copy of Zapdos is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.

SOURCES

  • Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
  • Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
  • Pack odds: cited above per slot.
  • Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.