Charizard VSTAR — Brilliant Stars #174, PSA 9

Rare RainbowBrilliant Stars174/1722022PSA 9

Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$85

Fair buy $85 · sell $1161.3× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$65
PSA 9this page$851.3×
PSA 10$2043.2×

PSA 9 sales: 62; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 46; sells often
Confidence: High; 46 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 3d ago; one every ~1d

ViewingPSA 9Raw / ungraded →PSA 10 →

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

Set a price alert

We'll email you when this card's value crosses your target.

Alert me when the priceNo password needed — we'll set up your free account.

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.

Affiliate links — CardTrack may earn a commission from eBay and other marketplaces, at no extra cost to you. Prices shown across this page are sold-based, not sponsored placements.

PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $35 — 59% below our PSA 9 estimate of $85

Buy from here

TCGplayer$70 ebay Fanatics

Affiliate links — CardTrack may earn a commission from eBay and other marketplaces, at no extra cost to you.

Buy#adCardTrack earns a commission on purchasesTCGplayer$70 ebay Fanatics

Why $85? 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
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #164340292	$85
2026-09-25	eBay · bestoffer	listing #65801714	$85
2026-09-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #98244699	$100
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #107151856	$125
2026-09-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #92147785	$125
2026-09-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #156648383	$100

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 5 best offers and 1 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 — 107 sales across 4 months, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$85▲ 7%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 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 $85 (Sep 2026, 29 sales) · ▼ 6% 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 99 distinct slabs behind 107 cert-linked sales at this grade — 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
#154418374	Jul 2026 $74→Sept 2026 $129	Under 3 months	+74.3%

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 $82; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 8 PSA 9 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Charizard VSTAR Brilliant Stars SWSH09 Secret Rare Full Art Holo 174/172 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$65.00
Pokemon Charizard VSTAR Secret Rare Holo 174/172 Brilliant Stars 2022 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$99.99
Pokemon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR Rainbow Secret Rare Card PSA 9 174/172	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$88.00
The Pokémon Company PSA 9 Charizard VSTAR 174/172 Brilliant Stars Secret Holo	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-28	—	$80.00
Charizard VSTAR (Secret) 174/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars Holo PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$75.00
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	164340292	$84.50
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-25	65801714	$85.00
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-24	156648383	$100
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-24	92147785	$125
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	107151856	$125
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR 174/172 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-24	98244699	$100
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-20	—	$84.00
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-13	—	$118
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-25	—	$54.00
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-13	—	$72.00
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-23	—	$67.20
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-02-23	—	$54.00
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Hyper Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2024-07-23	—	$76.80
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Hyper Rare Charizard VSTAR #174 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2024-06-24	—	$50.40

1–8 of 19 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

8,304

34.6% of 24,017 graded

Graded higher

12,888

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

24,017

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 1,593 of 4,069 · TAG 91 of 214. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Charizard 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

Close call

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-0

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3450%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-60

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.

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 290 graded sales and a population of 4,432,855 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Charizard VSTAR and more from Brilliant Stars

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Cite this PSA 9 pricefree with attribution

Citation

Charizard VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #174) — PSA 9 market value USD $85, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/brilliant-stars/charizard-vstar-174/psa-9

Embed this on your site

<iframe src="https://cardtrack.com/embed/card?id=swsh9-174" width="100%" height="160" style="border:0;max-width:460px" title="Charizard VSTAR PSA 9 price — CardTrack" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p style="font:12px system-ui">Source: <a href="https://cardtrack.com">CardTrack</a></p>

Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Charizard VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #174) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Charizard VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $85, with a fair range of $85 to $116 — about 1.3× the $65 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, 5 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Charizard VSTAR exist?

PSA has graded 8,304 copies of Charizard VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #174) a 9, out of 24,017 submitted — 34.6% of the population, with 12,888 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

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

It is close. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-0; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3450% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Charizard VSTAR a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Charizard VSTAR has 62 recorded sales, 46 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.