Fairy Energy — Burning Shadows #169, PSA 9

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Fairy Energy 169/147 · Burning Shadows PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$150

Fair buy $145 · sell $1951.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$96
PSA 9this page$1501.6×
PSA 10$5475.7×

PSA 9 sales: 7; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 3; occasional
Confidence: Medium; 3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale: 29d ago; one every ~19d

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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.

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PSA 9 · buy now

2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret #169 Fairy Energy PSA 9 MintPSA 9eBay$190

Cheapest ask $190 — 27% above our PSA 9 estimate of $150

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Why $150? 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
2026-09-06	eBay · fixedprice	listing #69563151 sold before	$160
2026-08-08	eBay · bestoffer	listing #46718527	$165
2026-07-27	eBay · bestoffer	listing #88246578	$155
2026-07-08	eBay · bestoffer	listing #73033342 sold before	$140
2026-06-25	eBay · bestoffer	listing #84155656	$145
2026-06-03	eBay · fixedprice	listing #44413009	$165

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 4 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 19 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 43 sales across 32 months, Dec 2017 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$150▲ 48%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 $160 (Sep 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 357% since Dec 2017

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

3 slabs have sold more than once, across 3 resales. That is 3 of the 40 distinct slabs behind 43 cert-linked sales at this grade — 7.5%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#69563151	May 2023 $66→Sept 2026 $160	Over a year	+142.4%
#73033342	Apr 2023 $42→Jul 2026 $140	Over a year	+235.9%
#46705300	Jun 2020 $125→Nov 2024 $61	Over a year	-51.2%

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 7 PSA 9 sales with a median of $160; 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.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-06	69563151	$160
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-08	46718527	$165
2017 Pokemon SM Burning Shadows Fairy Energy #169/147 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-08-07	—	$194
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-27	88246578	$155
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret #169 Fairy Energy PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-07-26	—	$170
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-08	73033342	$140
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-06-25	84155656	$145
2017 Pokémon Burning Shadows Fairy Energy 169/147 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-06-03	44413009	$165
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret #169 Fairy Energy PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-06-02	—	$200
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret #169 Fairy Energy PSA 9 Mint	PSA 9	eBay	2026-05-25	—	$150
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret Rare Fairy Energy #169 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2024-06-24	—	$26.40
2017 Pokemon Sun & Moon Burning Shadows Secret Rare Fairy Energy #169 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2024-06-10	—	$48.00

1–8 of 12 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

172

37.2% of 462 graded

Graded higher

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

462

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 20 of 101. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Fairy Energy 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

$11

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3750%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-28

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$82

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 19 graded sales and a population of 4,410,013 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Fairy Energy (Burning Shadows #169) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Fairy Energy from Burning Shadows is worth approximately $150, with a fair range of $145 to $195 — about 1.6× the $96 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, 4 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 19 days.

How many PSA 9 Fairy Energy exist?

PSA has graded 172 copies of Fairy Energy (Burning Shadows #169) a 9, out of 462 submitted — 37.2% of the population, with 87 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Fairy Energy hoping for a PSA 9?

It is close. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $82 grading fee is about $11; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3750% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Fairy Energy a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Fairy Energy has 7 recorded sales, 3 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.