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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

$38

Fair buy $32 · sell $441.6× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$24
  • PSA 9this page$381.6×
  • PSA 10$2239.4×
PSA 9 sales
108
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
92
sells often
Confidence
High
92 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
2d ago
one every ~1d

Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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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 $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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-19eBay · bestofferlisting#162186147$36
2026-09-19eBay · auctionlisting#141585087$32
2026-09-18eBay · auctionlisting#158818073$31
2026-09-17eBay · auctionlisting#141215256$43
2026-09-17eBay · auctionlisting#140417780$39
2026-09-17Fanatics · fixedprice#119111411$25

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 1 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 — 209 sales across 3 months, Jul 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$38 60%over 2 years

2025-03-01 → 2026-09-22

$25
$50
$75
$100
1 MarMayJunJulAugSeptOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug22 SeptRaw NM2025-03-01 · $962025-04-01 · $642025-05-01 · $462025-06-01 · $282025-07-01 · $262025-08-01 · $282025-09-01 · $362025-10-01 · $332025-11-01 · $282025-12-01 · $272026-01-01 · $282026-02-01 · $282026-03-01 · $292026-04-01 · $392026-05-01 · $382026-07-01 · $432026-07-14 · $322026-07-22 · $322026-07-23 · $422026-07-24 · $422026-07-25 · $422026-07-26 · $422026-07-27 · $422026-07-28 · $422026-07-29 · $422026-07-30 · $422026-07-31 · $422026-08-01 · $422026-08-02 · $422026-08-03 · $422026-08-04 · $422026-08-05 · $422026-08-06 · $422026-08-07 · $422026-08-08 · $422026-08-09 · $422026-08-10 · $422026-08-11 · $422026-08-12 · $422026-08-13 · $422026-08-14 · $422026-08-15 · $422026-08-16 · $422026-08-17 · $422026-08-18 · $422026-08-19 · $422026-08-20 · $422026-08-21 · $422026-08-22 · $422026-08-23 · $422026-08-25 · $422026-08-26 · $422026-08-27 · $422026-08-29 · $422026-08-30 · $402026-08-31 · $402026-09-01 · $402026-09-02 · $402026-09-03 · $402026-09-04 · $402026-09-05 · $402026-09-06 · $372026-09-07 · $372026-09-08 · $372026-09-09 · $372026-09-10 · $372026-09-11 · $372026-09-12 · $372026-09-13 · $372026-09-14 · $372026-09-15 · $372026-09-16 · $372026-09-17 · $372026-09-18 · $372026-09-19 · $372026-09-20 · $382026-09-21 · $382026-09-22 · $38
The recorded PSA 9 price index, closing on the figure above.

Latest $35 (Sep 2026, 45 sales) · 12% since Jul 2026

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 108 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: 11 PSA 9 sales, 2 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
ARTICUNO 2025 POKEMON JOURNEY TOGETHER 161/159 ILLUSTRATION RARE PSA 9 Q4267PSA 9eBay2026-09-21$31.00
Pokémon TCG Journey Together Articuno Card IR 161/159, English Edition, PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-21$42.50
Articuno Illustration Rare Pokemon Jtg En-Journey Together 161 NM PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-20$39.24
Pokemon 2025 Articuno 161/159 Illustration Rare Journey Together PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-20$34.00
Pokemon: Articuno Illustration Rare 161/159 Journey Together PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-19$38.99
Pokemon 2025 SV09 Journey Together Articuno # 161/159 IR PSA 9 CardPSA 9eBay2026-09-19$44.95
2025 Pokémon Journey Together Articuno 161/159 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-09-19141585087$32.00
2025 Pokémon Journey Together Articuno 161/159 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-09-19162186147$35.69

1–8 of 20 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

16,225

55.4% of 29,300 graded

Graded higher

8,127

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

29,300

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 580 of 1,162. 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

$-5

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5490%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-57

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$71

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 sideeach on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately playedthe same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs soldwhat the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentumthe 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higherthe Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population historythe weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 366 graded sales and a population of 5,137,704 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

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 $38, 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 22 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Articuno from Journey Together is worth approximately $38, with a fair range of $32 to $44 — about 1.6× the $24 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 — 4 at auction, 1 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Articuno exist?

PSA has graded 16,225 copies of Articuno (Journey Together #161) a 9, out of 29,300 submitted — 55.4% of the population, with 8,127 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 $71 grading fee is about $-5; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5490% 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 108 recorded sales, 92 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.