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Articuno — Journey Together #161, PSA 9

Illustration RareJourney Together161/1592025PSA 9

Articuno 161/159 · Journey Together PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$36

Fair buy $18 · sell $652.0× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$18
  • PSA 9this page$362.0×
  • PSA 10$20111×
PSA 9 sales
140
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
126
sells often
Confidence
High
126 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
13 Oct 2026
one every ~1d
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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

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Why $36? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#114059435$49
2026-09-25eBay · fixedpricelisting#116300288$42
2026-09-24eBay · bestofferlisting#168411834$35
2026-09-24eBay · bestofferlisting#113836008$45
2026-09-24eBay · fixedpricelisting#158050609$69
2026-09-24eBay · fixedpricelisting#160251501$55

0 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 4 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 248 sales across 4 months, Jul 2026 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$36▲ 18%over 366 days

2025-10-13 → 2026-10-14

$25
$30
$35
$40
13 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept14 Oct
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 $34 (Oct 2026, 6 sales) · ▼ 15% since Jul 2026

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

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 237 distinct slabs behind 248 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#166830131Aug 2026 $39→Sept 2026 $62Under 3 months+59.7%

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 140 PSA 9 sales with a median of $39; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 12 PSA 9 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2025 POKEMON JTG EN-JOURNEY TOGETHER ILLUSTRATION RARE #161 ARTICUNO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-13—$36.84
Articuno | 161/159 | PSA 9 | Journey Together | G20PSA 9eBay2026-10-11—$33.09
Pokémon TCG Articuno IR 161/159 Journey Together English PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-09—$34.00
2025 POKEMON JTG EN-JOURNEY TOGETHER ILLUSTRATION RARE #161 ARTICUNO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-07—$37.60
Pokemon Articuno 161/159 Sv09: Journey Together Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-06—$31.00
Pokemon 2025 Sv09 Journey Together Articuno # 161/159 Illus Rare Holo PSA 9 CardPSA 9eBay2026-10-05—$38.99
2025 POKEMON JTG EN-JOURNEY TOGETHER ILLUSTRATION RARE #161 ARTICUNO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-05—$24.56
173154979 Articuno 2025 Pokemon Journey Together #161/159 PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-05—$36.90

1–8 of 22 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

16,362

55.4% of 29,526 graded

Graded higher

8,151

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

29,526

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 640 of 1,259. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Articuno 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

$-20

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

55.4%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-63

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 457 graded sales and a population of 5,137,704 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Articuno and more from Journey Together

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

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Articuno (Journey Together #161) — PSA 9 market value USD $36, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/journey-together/articuno-161/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Articuno (Journey Together #161) worth?

As of 14 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Articuno from Journey Together is worth approximately $36, with a fair range of $18 to $65 — about 2.0× the $18 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, 2 by best offer and 4 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Articuno exist?

PSA has graded 16,362 copies of Articuno (Journey Together #161) a 9, out of 29,526 submitted — 55.4% of the population, with 8,151 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Articuno 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 $-20; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 55.4% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Articuno a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Articuno has 140 recorded sales, 126 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.