Salamence ex177/159 · Journey Together Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $6est.
- PSA 9$162 sold · 90d · pop 1,006
- PSA 10$5613 sold · 90d · pop 889
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Journey Together #177/159, 2025. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
What's your copy worth?
Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $6.05. That's about +220% over a typical Near Mint copy.
ⓘ How do we work this out?
We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (23 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.
Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.
Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.
These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Salamence ex is a Ultra Rare Pokémon card from Journey Together (#177, released 2025), illustrated by 5ban Graphics. It's a Stage 2 ex Dragon-type Pokémon with 320 HP, evolving from Shelgon. It's listed among our ex cards. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 15 September 2026.
Salamence ex price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence96 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Sale mix: 4 auctions, 3 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every 3 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$2.83103 sales · 96 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 10$21.6035 sales · 13 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 10$59.9917 sales · 13 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 9$10.8011 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$19.993 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.5$9.603 sales
- CGC 8$9.603 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.6$13.002 sales
Is Salamence ex worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $16 against the $72 you put in, a $56 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $16–$60. Averaged over every outcome that is −$38 a card.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually 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.
The odds
Salamence ex is a Ultra Rare in Journey Together — the pack's hit slot lands on Ultra Rare 10% of the time, split across 22 ultra rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 221 packs.
Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.
Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
| Target grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $55.50 | $71 | −$17 | 29.4× |
| PSA 9 | $16.00 | $70 | −$56 | 8.5× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 1,933 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 41.7% | $59.99 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 49.6% | $16.00 |
| PSA 8 | 7.7% | $13.75 † |
| PSA 7 | 0.6% | $1.89 |
| PSA 6 | 0.2% | $1.89 |
| PSA 5 | 0.1% | $1.89 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.3% | $1.89 |
† Priced from PriceCharting's graded ladder — we hold no completed sale of our own at that grade. Every other row is our own sold data.
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
889 of the 2,068 PSA-graded Salamence ex copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 43%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2,068.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 988.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 74.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Salamence ex 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Salamence ex 177/159 Sv09: Journey Together HoloRaw · eBay$1.69
Salamence ex 177/159 Ultra Rare Journey Together Pokemon Holo Near MintRaw · eBay$1.98
Salamence ex 177/159 Journey Together Pokemon Holo NMRaw · eBay$1.98
Salamence ex 177/159 Sv09: Journey Together HoloRaw · eBay$1.99
2025 Pokemon Salamence ex 177/159 Ultra Rare Journey Together Holo Near MintRaw · eBay$2.00
Salamence ex 177/159 Sv09: Journey Together HoloRaw · eBay$2.00Cheapest raw copy $1.69 — 11% below our near-mint estimate of $2
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 889 | $56$47–$64 | |
| PSA 9pop 1,006 | ✓ 11 cert-verified$16$16–$22 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
41% spreadCurrently 41% cheaper on TCGplayer than PriceCharting. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
🔥 Trending in the community
#217 on the radarSalamence is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Shelgon.
This attack does 50 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon.
Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Salamence ex cards
There are 5 different Salamence ex printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Journey Together #177 (Ultra Rare).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Salamence ex (Journey Together #177) worth?
As of 15 September 2026, Salamence ex from Journey Together is worth approximately $1.89 ungraded (near-mint), and around $56 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Salamence ex?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Salamence ex from Journey Together is worth around $56 — roughly 29× the raw ungraded value of $1.89.
Should I grade my Salamence ex?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Salamence ex rare?
Salamence ex is a Ultra Rare card from Journey Together (card #177).
How do I know if my Salamence ex is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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