Pikachu ex — Ascended Heroes #277, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareAscended Heroes277/2172026PSA 9

Pikachu ex 277/217 · Ascended Heroes PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$315

Fair buy $235 · sell $317Updated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$346
PSA 9this page$315
PSA 10$8702.5×

PSA 9 sales: 116; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 110; sells often
Confidence: High; 110 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 4d ago; one every ~1d

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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: $290 (range $268–$320, high confidence, from cert #167870671, checked Sept 2026). 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 $290

Ours $315

PSA low $268PSA high $320

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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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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $310 — in line with our PSA 9 estimate of $315

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Why $315? 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
2026-09-25	eBay · auction	listing #170215566	$274
2026-09-25	eBay · auction	listing #170215563	$265
2026-09-23	eBay · auction	listing #166749468	$290
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #167203837	$320
2026-09-22	eBay · auction	listing #161068795 sold before	$255
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #155455584	$315

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 218 sales across 4 months, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$315▼ 38%over 245 days

2026-02-01 → 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 $306 (Sep 2026, 52 sales) · ▼ 32% since Jun 2026

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

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 211 distinct slabs behind 219 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.5%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#161068795	Jul 2026 $300→Sept 2026 $255	Under 3 months	-15.0%

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 116 PSA 9 sales with a median of $335; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 11 PSA 9 sales, 11 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Pokemon Pikachu EX Ascended Heroes 277 Special Illustration Rare PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$323
Pokemon Pikachu ex 277/217 Me: Ascended Heroes SIR Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$320
Pokemon Pikachu EX Ascended Heroes 277 Special Illustration Rare SIR PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$290
Pokemon Pikachu ex 277/217 Me: Ascended Heroes SIR Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$300
PIKACHU EX 2026 POKEMON ASC EN SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-28	—	$255
Pokemon Pikachu EX Ascended Heroes 277 Special Illustration Rare PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$300
Pokemon Pikachu EX Ascended Heroes 277 Special Illustration Rare PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$270
Pokemon Pikachu EX Ascended Heroes 277 Special Illustration Rare PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$280
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-25	170215563	$265
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-25	170215566	$274
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-23	166749468	$290
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	155455584	$315
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-22	161068795	$255
2026 Pokémon Ascended Heroes Pikachu ex 277/217 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	167203837	$320
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu EX #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-21	—	$276
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-21	—	$240
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu Ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-14	—	$300
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-24	—	$264
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-24	—	$252
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$276
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes SIR Pikachu ex #277 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-10	—	$300

1–8 of 21 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

3,327

39.8% of 8,357 graded

Graded higher

4,626

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

8,357

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 163 of 444. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Pikachu ex 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

$213

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3600%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-117

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$86

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 412 graded sales and a population of 5,113,964 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu ex (Ascended Heroes #277) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu ex from Ascended Heroes is worth approximately $315, with a fair range of $235 to $317 — about 0.9× the $346 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 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu ex exist?

PSA has graded 3,327 copies of Pikachu ex (Ascended Heroes #277) a 9, out of 8,357 submitted — 39.8% of the population, with 4,626 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Pikachu ex hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $86 grading fee is about $213; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3600% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Pikachu ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu ex has 116 recorded sales, 110 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.