Ultra Ball — Brilliant Stars #186, PSA 9

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Ultra Ball 186/172 · Brilliant Stars PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$20

Fair buy $17 · sell $231.4× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$15
PSA 9this page$201.4×
PSA 10$533.6×

PSA 9 sales: 9; in our ledger
Last 90 days: 8; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 8 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.
Latest sale: 17d ago; psa 9

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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 9 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 9 of this exact card · stock as of 5 days ago. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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PSA 9 · buy now

Ultra Ball Gold Secret Rare 186/172 Brilliant Stars Pokemon PSA 9PSA 9eBay$19.00

Cheapest ask $19 — 5% below our PSA 9 estimate of $20

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PSA 9 price history

PSA 9 · index · latest

$20▼ 2%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

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.

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 9 PSA 9 sales with a median of $20; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Ultra Ball #186/172 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-19	—	$20.01
2022 Pokemon Ultra Ball SWSH Brilliant Stars Secret Rare 186/172 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-05	—	$7.50
2022 Pokemon SWSH Brilliant Stars Ultra Ball Full Art Secret #186 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-02	—	$25.00
2022 POKEMON BRILLIANT STARS SECRET SWSH #186 FA ULTRA BALL TRAINER PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-27	—	$16.00
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Gold Ultra Ball Secret Rare 186 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-23	—	$25.00
2022 SWORD & SHIELD BRILLIANT STARS #186 SECRET FULL ART ULTRA BALL PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-13	—	$8.50
Ultra Ball 186 Secret Brilliant Stars Pokemon PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-08	—	$17.00
2022 Pokémon Brilliant Stars Gold Ultra Ball Secret Rare 186 PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-07	—	$40.00

1–8 of 8 sales · 0 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

445

46.2% of 963 graded

Graded higher

377

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

963

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 152 of 361. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Ultra Ball 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

$-63

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4570%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-75

PSA 9 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 22 graded sales and a population of 4,410,513 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Ultra Ball (Brilliant Stars #186) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Ultra Ball from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $20, with a fair range of $17 to $23 — about 1.4× the $15 raw near-mint price.

How many PSA 9 Ultra Ball exist?

PSA has graded 445 copies of Ultra Ball (Brilliant Stars #186) a 9, out of 963 submitted — 46.2% of the population, with 377 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Ultra Ball hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-63; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4570% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Ultra Ball a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Ultra Ball has 9 recorded sales, 8 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.