Rare HoloCelebrations005/0252021PSA 9

Pikachu 5/25 · Celebrations PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$38

Fair buy $23 · sell $637.4× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$5
PSA 9this page$387.4×
PSA 10$1,395270×

PSA 9 sales: 78; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 45; sells often
Confidence: High; 45 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~1d

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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 →

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $40 (range $35–$45, high confidence, from cert #94776414, checked Sept 2026). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range

PSA $40

Ours $38

PSA low $35PSA high $45

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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

2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINTPSA 9bidFanatics auction$6.00

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Why $38? 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
2026-09-26	eBay · fixedprice	listing #165846950	$39
2026-09-26	eBay · auction	listing #128987876	$28
2026-09-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #155838664	$46
2026-09-24	eBay · auction	listing #164556824	$21
2026-09-24	eBay · bestoffer	listing #126659528	$40
2026-09-24	eBay · fixedprice	listing #168065476	$45

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

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 2,296 sales across 19 quarters, Q1 2022 to Q4 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$38▲ 43%over 366 days

2025-10-07 → 2026-10-08

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.

Latest $31 (Q4 2026, 7 sales) · ▲ 19% since Q1 2022

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

133 slabs have sold more than once, across 146 resales — typically 181 days apart, with a median gross price change of +55.8%. That is 133 of the 2,066 distinct slabs behind 2,299 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#134434651	Jun 2026 $45→Oct 2026 $31	3–6 months	-30.6%
#152034835	Jun 2026 $42→Sept 2026 $38	3–6 months	-10.7%
#131819192	Dec 2025 $20→Sept 2026 $38	6–12 months	+93.1%
#131385350	Dec 2025 $31→Sept 2026 $51	6–12 months	+64.5%
#145951389	Mar 2026 $24→Sept 2026 $45	6–12 months	+91.5%
#138290064	Apr 2026 $37→Sept 2026 $30	3–6 months	-18.0%
#132001302	Jul 2026 $50→Sept 2026 $49	Under 3 months	-2.0%
#133272164	Jan 2026 $25→Sept 2026 $50	6–12 months	+100.0%
#111427655	Jun 2025 $16→Jan 2026 $25→Sept 2026 $64	6–12 months	+310.3%
#113088606	Aug 2025 $20→Jan 2026 $22→Jul 2026 $45→Sept 2026 $55	Under 3 months	+169.6%

Showing the 10 most recent of 133 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 78 PSA 9 sales with a median of $35; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 31 PSA 9 sales, 6 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2021 POKEMON CELEBRATIONS #005 FULL ART/PIKACHU PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-07	—	$38.00
2021 Pokemon Celebrations FA/Pikachu #005 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-06	—	$35.00
2021 POKEMON CELEBRATIONS #005 FULL ART/PIKACHU PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-06	—	$38.62
2021 POKEMON CELEBRATIONS #005 FULL ART/PIKACHU PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-05	—	$25.00
2021 POKEMON CELEBRATIONS #005 FULL ART/PIKACHU PSA 9 Anniversary 25th 30	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-04	—	$30.88
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$36.00
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-28	—	$30.00
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-26	155838664	$45.65
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-26	128987876	$27.58
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-26	165846950	$39.00
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-24	168065476	$44.99
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-24	126659528	$40.00
2021 Pokémon Celebrations Pikachu 5/25 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-24	164556824	$20.50
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-07	—	$37.20
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$33.60
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-13	—	$45.60
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-06	—	$37.20
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Celebrations Full Art Pikachu #5 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-22	—	$48.00

1–8 of 18 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

13,400

27.5% of 48,732 graded

Graded higher

970

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

48,732

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 3,229 of 9,767 · TAG 409 of 1,295. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Pikachu 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

$-26

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2830%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-48

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 461 graded sales and a population of 4,451,993 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Pikachu and more from Celebrations

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

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Pikachu (Celebrations #5) — PSA 9 market value USD $38, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/celebrations/pikachu-5/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu (Celebrations #5) worth?

As of 8 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu from Celebrations is worth approximately $38, with a fair range of $23 to $63 — about 7.4× the $5 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, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu exist?

PSA has graded 13,400 copies of Pikachu (Celebrations #5) a 9, out of 48,732 submitted — 27.5% of the population, with 970 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Pikachu hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-26; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2830% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Pikachu a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu has 78 recorded sales, 45 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.