Special Illustration RareBlack Bolt166/0862025PSA 9

Zekrom ex 166/86 · Black Bolt PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$246

Fair buy $209 · sell $283Updated today

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Raw NM$255
PSA 9this page$246
PSA 10$4851.9×

PSA 9 sales: 62; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 48; sells often
Confidence: High; 48 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 4d ago; one every ~1d

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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 $285 — 16% above our PSA 9 estimate of $246

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Why $246? 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 · fixedprice	listing #161003223	$260
2026-09-25	eBay · fixedprice	listing #128137470	$230
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #131828995	$218
2026-09-23	eBay · fixedprice	listing #153281138	$204
2026-09-22	Fanatics · bestoffer	#129506532	$285
2026-09-19	eBay · fixedprice	listing #166618960	$275

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 5 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 — 98 sales across 4 months, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$246▼ 0%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 9 price index, 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 $245 (Sep 2026, 20 sales) · ▼ 9% 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 94 distinct slabs behind 99 cert-linked sales at this grade — 1.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#126345423	Jul 2026 $232→Aug 2026 $255	Under 3 months	+10.2%

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 62 PSA 9 sales with a median of $255; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 4 PSA 9 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2025 POKEMON BLK EN-BLACK BOLT SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #166 ZEKROM EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$230
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt SIR Zekrom ex #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$192
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt SIR Zekrom ex #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-28	—	$160
ZEKROM EX 2025 POKEMON BLACK BOLT 166/086 SIR PSA 9 Q3963-5	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-28	—	$233
PSA 9 Mint 2025 Pokemon Black EN # 166 Zekrom ex Special Illustration Rare	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$241
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-25	128137470	$230
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-25	161003223	$260
Pokémon TCG Zekrom EX Black Bolt Special Illustration Card #166/086 PSA 9 Card	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-24	—	$230
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	131828995	$218
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt Special IR Zekrom EX #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-23	—	$285
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-23	153281138	$204
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2026-09-22	129506532	$285
2025 Pokémon Black Bolt Zekrom ex 166/86 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-19	166618960	$275
ZEKROM EX PSA 9 2025 POKEMON BLACK BOLT #166/086 SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE 5437	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$214
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt SIR Zekrom ex #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$300
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt Special IR Zekrom EX #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-15	—	$228
2025 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Black Bolt SIR Zekrom ex #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-23	—	$162

1–8 of 17 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

4,265

32.8% of 12,986 graded

Graded higher

8,019

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

12,986

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 199 of 464. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Zekrom 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

$52

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3310%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-93

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$84

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 339 graded sales and a population of 5,121,592 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Zekrom ex (Black Bolt #166) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Zekrom ex from Black Bolt is worth approximately $246, with a fair range of $209 to $283 — about 1.0× the $255 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 — 0 at auction, 1 by best offer and 5 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Zekrom ex exist?

PSA has graded 4,265 copies of Zekrom ex (Black Bolt #166) a 9, out of 12,986 submitted — 32.8% of the population, with 8,019 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

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

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $84 grading fee is about $52; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3310% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Zekrom ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Zekrom ex has 62 recorded sales, 48 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.