Salamence VMAX — Darkness Ablaze #144, PSA 10

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Salamence VMAX 144/189 · Darkness Ablaze PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$44

Fair buy $38 · sell $5112× rawUpdated today

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

Raw NM$4
PSA 9$164.3×
PSA 10this page$4412×

PSA 10 sales: 23; in our ledger
Last 90 days: 16; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 16 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 7d ago; psa 10

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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 10 price history

PSA 10 · index · latest

$44▼ 11%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

The recorded PSA 10 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 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 23 PSA 10 sales with a median of $54; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 10 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

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	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
SALAMENCE VMAX 144/189 DARKNESS ABLAZE POKEMON PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-28	—	$54.99
Salamence VMAX PSA 10 2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze #144/189 8780	PSA 10	eBay	2026-09-01	—	$50.00
2020 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD DARKNESS ABLAZE #144 FULL ART/SALAMENCE VMAX PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-30	—	$60.00
Pokemon 2020 SWSH Darkness Ablaze Salamence VMAX 144/189 Full Art Holo PSA 10	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-30	—	$44.67
2020 Pokemon Salamence VMAX Full Art Darkness Ablaze # 144/189 - PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-24	—	$70.00
Pokemon Salamence VMAX Full Art SWSH 2020 Darkness Ablaze #144 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-20	—	$59.00
Pokémon Salamence VMAX Darkness Ablaze Holo Full Art PSA 10 144/189 2020	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-20	—	$54.39
2020 Pokemon Salamence VMAX Full Art Darkness Ablaze # 144/189 - PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	eBay	2026-08-20	—	$59.99
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Alt Art Salamence VMAX #144 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-13	—	$44.40

1–8 of 9 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($54) sits above 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 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

1,425

80.4% of 1,772 graded

Share of every submission

80.4%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

1,772

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 355 of 766. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Salamence VMAX 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-45

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

8060%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-40

PSA 10 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.

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 54 graded sales and a population of 4,411,297 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Salamence VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #144) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Salamence VMAX from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $44, with a fair range of $38 to $51 — about 12× the $4 raw near-mint price.

How many PSA 10 Salamence VMAX exist?

PSA has graded 1,425 copies of Salamence VMAX (Darkness Ablaze #144) a 10, out of 1,772 submitted — 80.4% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Salamence VMAX hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-45; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 8060% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Salamence VMAX a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Salamence VMAX has 23 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.