Articuno-GX — Celestial Storm #171, PSA 10

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Articuno-GX 171/168 · Celestial Storm PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$350

Fair buy $312 · sell $3927.0× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$50
PSA 9$871.7×
PSA 10this page$3507.0×

PSA 10 sales: 14; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 9; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 9 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 2d ago; one every ~4d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 of this exact card · stock as of yesterday. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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Why $350? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2026-09-23	eBay · auction	listing #87926023 sold before	$390
2026-09-21	eBay · auction	listing #130836311	$365
2026-09-17	eBay · auction	listing #58812338	$346
2026-08-20	eBay · bestoffer	listing #119792598	$310
2026-07-26	eBay · bestoffer	listing #154262750	$450
2026-07-23	eBay · auction	listing #136565214 sold before	$392

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 4 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 154 sales across 28 quarters, Q3 2018 to Q3 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$350▲ 68%over 366 days

2025-10-07 → 2026-10-08

The recorded PSA 10 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 $375 (Q3 2026, 10 sales) · ▲ 428% since Q3 2018

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

18 slabs have sold more than once, across 22 resales — typically 477 days apart, with a median gross price change of +58.0%. That is 18 of the 130 distinct slabs behind 154 cert-linked sales at this grade — 13.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#87926023	Jan 2026 $181→Sept 2026 $390	6–12 months	+116.1%
#136565214	Jan 2026 $203→May 2026 $320→Jul 2026 $392	Under 3 months	+93.5%
#56686174	Dec 2022 $85→May 2026 $400	Over a year	+370.6%
#49851628	Oct 2021 $108→Apr 2026 $350	Over a year	+225.6%
#96757643	Dec 2024 $79→Mar 2026 $301	Over a year	+280.8%
#53478549	Apr 2024 $70→Feb 2026 $181	Over a year	+158.6%
#120560529	Aug 2025 $210→Jan 2026 $200	3–6 months	-4.8%
#94648802	Apr 2025 $136→Dec 2025 $164	6–12 months	+20.4%
#50553315	Jan 2022 $86→Jun 2022 $66→Oct 2025 $295	Over a year	+243.0%
#48210723	Jul 2025 $190→Oct 2025 $250	Under 3 months	+31.6%

Showing the 10 most recent of 18 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 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 14 PSA 10 sales with a median of $365; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 3 PSA 10 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2018 POKEMON SUN & MOON CELESTIAL STORM SECRET #171 FULL ART/ARTICUNO GX PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-10-07	—	$595
2018 Pokemon Celestial Storm Articuno GX Hyper Secret Rare Card 171/168 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-27	—	$346
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-23	87926023	$390
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-21	130836311	$365
Pokemon Articuno Gx Celestial Storm 171/168 Secret Rare PSA 10 Gem Mint	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-20	—	$365
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-09-17	58812338	$346
POKEMON FA/ARTICUNO GX 2018 SUN & MOON CELESTIAL STORM-SECRET #171 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-16	—	$346
Pokemon Articuno GX 171/168 Secret Rare Full Art Holo Celestial Storm PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-20	—	$350
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-08-20	119792598	$310
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-26	154262750	$450
2018 Pokémon Celestial Storm Articuno-GX 171/168 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2026-07-23	136565214	$392
136565214 Articuno 2018 Pokemon Sun & Moon Celestial Storm #171/168 PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-07-22	—	$392
2018 Pokemon Sun & Moon Celestial Storm Rainbow Rare Articuno GX #171 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-07-13	—	$384
2018 Pokemon Sun & Moon Celestial Storm Rainbow Rare Articuno GX #171 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-01	—	$552
2018 Pokemon Sun & Moon Celestial Storm Rainbow Rare Articuno GX #171 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-05-04	—	$276

1–8 of 15 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

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

374

56.6% of 661 graded

Share of every submission

56.6%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

661

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 22 of 103 · TAG 3 of 7. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Articuno-GX 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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$102

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

5760%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$217

PSA 10 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 24 graded sales and a population of 4,410,190 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Articuno-GX (Celestial Storm #171) worth?

As of 8 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Articuno-GX from Celestial Storm is worth approximately $350, with a fair range of $312 to $392 — about 7.0× the $50 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 4 at auction, 2 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 4 days.

How many PSA 10 Articuno-GX exist?

PSA has graded 374 copies of Articuno-GX (Celestial Storm #171) a 10, out of 661 submitted — 56.6% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Articuno-GX hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $82 grading fee is about $102; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 5760% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Articuno-GX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Articuno-GX has 14 recorded sales, 9 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.