Arceus VSTAR — Brilliant Stars #176, PSA 9

Rare RainbowBrilliant Stars176/1722022PSA 9

Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$25

Fair buy $25 · sell $341.8× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$14
PSA 9this page$251.8×
PSA 10$805.7×

PSA 9 sales: 12; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 10; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 10 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~2d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of yesterday. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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Why $25? 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
2026-09-15	eBay · auction	listing #168695991	$25
2026-09-15	eBay · auction	listing #168695989	$25
2026-09-08	eBay · auction	listing #140211601	$25
2026-09-06	eBay · auction	listing #87533657 sold before	$23
2026-09-01	eBay · bestoffer	listing #88620542 sold before	$30
2026-08-30	eBay · fixedprice	listing #73986490	$40

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

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 196 sales across 44 months, May 2022 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$25▲ 21%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 $25 (Sep 2026, 5 sales) · ▼ 51% since May 2022

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

12 slabs have sold more than once, across 14 resales — typically 466 days apart, with a median gross price change of +15.7%. That is 12 of the 177 distinct slabs behind 199 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#87533657	Dec 2024 $11→May 2025 $30→Sept 2026 $23	Over a year	+97.7%
#88620542	May 2024 $20→Apr 2026 $20→Sept 2026 $30	3–6 months	+53.8%
#73986489	Jun 2026 $40→Aug 2026 $40	Under 3 months	+0.0%
#114577122	Sept 2025 $21→Aug 2026 $27	6–12 months	+28.6%
#68491941	Apr 2025 $16→Jul 2026 $40	Over a year	+149.9%
#68500044	Jan 2026 $15→Mar 2026 $15	Under 3 months	+0.0%
#79127942	Apr 2025 $19→Mar 2026 $21	6–12 months	+15.7%
#68699985	May 2023 $25→Apr 2025 $40	Over a year	+60.0%
#65256351	Jan 2023 $21→Apr 2025 $20	Over a year	-2.5%
#73392539	Aug 2023 $27→Mar 2025 $28	Over a year	+7.0%

Showing the 10 most recent of 12 slabs with a history. 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 12 PSA 9 sales with a median of $25; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Pokemon TCG Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 Secret Rare Holo PSA 9 Eng 2022	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-03	—	$11.00
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Secret #176 FA Arceus VStar PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$21.50
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-15	168695989	$24.50
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-15	168695991	$24.50
168695991 Arceus Vstar 2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars-Secret #176/172 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-14	—	$24.50
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-08	140211601	$25.10
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Arceus VST #176/172 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-07	—	$25.10
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-06	87533657	$22.50
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-01	88620542	$30.00
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Arceus VSTAR 176/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-08-30	73986490	$39.95
Arceus 2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Secret FA Vstar PSA 9 176/172	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-23	—	$20.50
Arceus 2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Secret FA Vstar PSA 9 176/172	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-19	—	$24.00
Arceus VSTAR (Secret) 176/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-11	—	$28.00

1–8 of 13 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

1,188

31.9% of 3,727 graded

Graded higher

2,159

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

3,727

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 484 of 1,343 · TAG 14 of 42. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Arceus VSTAR 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-38

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3170%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-70

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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.

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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 74 graded sales and a population of 4,413,199 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Arceus VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #176) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Arceus VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $25, with a fair range of $25 to $34 — about 1.8× the $14 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, 1 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days.

How many PSA 9 Arceus VSTAR exist?

PSA has graded 1,188 copies of Arceus VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #176) a 9, out of 3,727 submitted — 31.9% of the population, with 2,159 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Arceus VSTAR hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-38; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3170% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Arceus VSTAR a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Arceus VSTAR has 12 recorded sales, 10 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.