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Pikachu V — Brilliant Stars #157, PSA 9

Rare UltraBrilliant Stars157/1722022PSA 9

Pikachu V 157/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$60

Fair buy $33 · sell $602.4× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$25
  • PSA 9this page$602.4×
  • PSA 10$2108.4×
PSA 9 sales
25
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
16
sells regularly
Confidence
High
16 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
5d ago
one every ~7d

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.

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Why $60? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-23eBay · fixedpricelisting#160251569$60
2026-09-03eBay · auctionlisting#138768938$52
2026-08-27eBay · bestofferlisting#167671457$50
2026-08-27eBay · bestofferlisting#156185336$55
2026-08-27eBay · bestofferlisting#146230320$40
2026-08-18eBay · auctionlisting#167203545$47

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 7 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 307 sales across 44 months, Oct 2022 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$60▲ 98%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$20
$30
$40
$50
$60
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 OctRaw NM
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 $56 (Sep 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 155% since Oct 2022

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

13 slabs have sold more than once, across 15 resales — typically 91 days apart, with a median gross price change of +25.2%. That is 13 of the 276 distinct slabs behind 307 cert-linked sales at this grade — 4.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#101860741Jul 2025 $20→Jan 2026 $34→Mar 2026 $43→Jul 2026 $323–6 months+60.0%
#94900312Oct 2024 $15→Jul 2026 $35Over a year+133.3%
#115976197Aug 2025 $22→Jun 2026 $606–12 months+172.7%
#144361600Apr 2026 $35→Jun 2026 $53Under 3 months+51.4%
#142392579Mar 2026 $35→May 2026 $40Under 3 months+14.3%
#142550413Feb 2026 $18→Apr 2026 $35Under 3 months+94.2%
#112912248Oct 2025 $29→Dec 2025 $20Under 3 months-30.5%
#80068788Sept 2025 $22→Nov 2025 $18Under 3 months-18.1%
#80068785Aug 2025 $20→Nov 2025 $373–6 months+85.0%
#93726570Aug 2024 $17→Aug 2025 $226–12 months+30.3%

Showing the 10 most recent of 13 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 25 PSA 9 sales with a median of $45; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

1–8 of 13 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($45) sits below 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

1,548

35.7% of 4,334 graded

Graded higher

2,331

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

4,334

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 426 of 1,206. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Pikachu V 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

$30

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3560%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-46

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 110 graded sales and a population of 4,413,618 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu V (Brilliant Stars #157) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu V from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $60, with a fair range of $33 to $60 — about 2.4× the $25 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 — 2 at auction, 3 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 7 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu V exist?

PSA has graded 1,548 copies of Pikachu V (Brilliant Stars #157) a 9, out of 4,334 submitted — 35.7% of the population, with 2,331 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Pikachu V hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $30; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3560% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Pikachu V a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu V has 25 recorded sales, 16 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.