Cynthia's Ambition — Brilliant Stars #178, PSA 10

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Cynthia's Ambition 178/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$50

Fair buy $42 · sell $576.7× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$7
PSA 9$172.3×
PSA 10this page$506.7×

PSA 10 sales: 12; in our ledger
Last 90 days: 7; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 7 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 4d ago; psa 10

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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 →

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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 10 price history

PSA 10 · index · latest

$50▼ 9%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 10 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.

Every PSA 10 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 10 sales with a median of $62; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 10 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

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	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Cynthia's Ambition 178/172 - PSA 10 (Brilliant Stars)	PSA 10	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$89.99
2022 POKEMON SWSH #178 FA/CYNTHIA’S AMBITION BRILLIANT STARS-SECRET PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-25	—	$59.99
POKEMON 2022 BRILLIANT STARS CYNTHIA'S AMBITION FULL ART SECRET 178 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$64.99
2022 Pokemon SWSH FA/Cynthia's Ambition Brilliant Stars- Secret PSA 10 GEM MT	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-17	—	$70.00
CYNTHIA’S AMBITION POKEMON 178 2022 BRILLIANT STARS - ENGLISCH PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-02	—	$66.86
Cynthia's Ambition 178/172 - PSA 10 (Brilliant Stars)	PSA 10	eBay	2026-07-31	—	$25.86
2022 Pokemon Brilliant Stars Cynthia's Ambition #178 Rainbow Secret FA PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-07-27	—	$99.99
Pokemon Brilliant Stars Cynthia's Ambition 178/172 Secret Holo PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-07-04	—	$84.00
2022 Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars Rainbow Rare Cynthia's Ambition #178 PSA 10 GEM	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-20	—	$37.20
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Full Art Cynthia's Ambition #178 PSA 10 GEM	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2024-01-22	—	$31.20

1–8 of 10 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($62) 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 10 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 10 population

735

50.4% of 1,457 graded

Share of every submission

50.4%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

1,457

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 292 of 555 · TAG 15 of 37. A CGC or BGS 10 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 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-55

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

4990%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-38

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

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 32 graded sales and a population of 4,410,985 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Cynthia's Ambition (Brilliant Stars #178) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Cynthia's Ambition from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $50, with a fair range of $42 to $57 — about 6.7× the $7 raw near-mint price.

How many PSA 10 Cynthia's Ambition exist?

PSA has graded 735 copies of Cynthia's Ambition (Brilliant Stars #178) a 10, out of 1,457 submitted — 50.4% of the population. 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 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-55; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 4990% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Cynthia's Ambition a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Cynthia's Ambition has 12 recorded sales, 7 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.