Rare UltraBrilliant Stars169/1722022PSA 9
Cynthia's Ambition 169/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 9 price
PSA 9 · mint slab
$24
Fair buy $24 · sell $341.7× rawUpdated
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- PSA 9 sales
- 5
- 6 cert-verified
- Last 90 days
- 4
- occasional
- Confidence
- Medium
- 4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
- Latest sale
- 4d ago
- one every ~2d
Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →
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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now
Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of . A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.
No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.
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Why $24? 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 | eBay · bestoffer | listing#120689729 | $24 |
| 2026-09-08 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#79953267 | $15 |
| 2026-09-06 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#163641438 | $36 |
| 2026-08-27 | eBay · bestoffer | listing#68453154 | $20 |
| 2026-07-30 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#141937346 | $27 |
| 2026-07-30 | eBay · fixedprice | listing#98533639sold before | $31 |
0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 4 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.
PSA 9 price history
Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 176 sales across 43 quarters, May 2022 to Jul 2026.
PSA 9 · latest
$31▼ 42%over 4 years
2022-05-15 → 2026-07-15 · 176 sales
Latest $31 (Jul 2026, 3 sales) · ▼ 42% since May 2022
Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once
8 slabs have sold more than once, across 9 resales — typically 565 days apart, with a median gross price change of +41.8%. That is 8 of the 165 distinct slabs behind 180 cert-linked sales at this grade — 4.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.
| Cert | Sales of this slab | Between | Gross change |
|---|---|---|---|
| #98533639 | Jan 2025 $20→Jul 2026 $31 | Over a year | +55.1% |
| #69241976 | Feb 2023 $31→Jul 2026 $40 | Over a year | +29.0% |
| #137861954 | Feb 2026 $23→Jun 2026 $35 | 3–6 months | +52.2% |
| #121289212 | Sept 2025 $20→Jun 2026 $29 | 6–12 months | +46.0% |
| #73279115 | Oct 2023 $21→Jan 2026 $24→May 2026 $34 | 3–6 months | +66.3% |
| #68654205 | Mar 2023 $15→Mar 2025 $39 | Over a year | +167.3% |
| #70759723 | Feb 2023 $17→Jan 2025 $18 | Over a year | +8.9% |
| #66379783 | Dec 2022 $16→Feb 2023 $17 | Under 3 months | +6.5% |
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 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $31; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.
1–8 of 10 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.
The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($31) sits above the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.
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
976
37.1% of 2,629 graded
Graded higher
1,269
PSA 10s above this grade
Total PSA graded
2,629
every grade, all time
Other graders at a 9: CGC 205 of 630 · TAG 2 of 7. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.
Is Cynthia's Ambition 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
$-39
after fees, all grades
Comes back PSA 9
3680%
of submissions, by the census
PSA 9 outcome
$-60
PSA 9 net of raw and fee
Grading cost
$70
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.
- 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 34 graded sales and a population of 4,412,124 · fees as of 2026-09-16.
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Cynthia's Ambition (Brilliant Stars #169) — PSA 9 market value USD $24, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/brilliant-stars/cynthia-s-ambition-169/psa-9
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Frequently asked questions
How much is a PSA 9 Cynthia's Ambition (Brilliant Stars #169) worth?
As of 16 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Cynthia's Ambition from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $24, with a fair range of $24 to $34 — about 1.7× 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 — 0 at auction, 2 by best offer and 4 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 2 days.
How many PSA 9 Cynthia's Ambition exist?
PSA has graded 976 copies of Cynthia's Ambition (Brilliant Stars #169) a 9, out of 2,629 submitted — 37.1% of the population, with 1,269 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.
Should I grade my Cynthia's Ambition hoping for a PSA 9?
Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-39; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3680% of the time.
Is a PSA 9 Cynthia's Ambition a good investment?
CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Cynthia's Ambition has 5 recorded sales, 4 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.