Air Balloon — Mega Evolution #166, PSA 9

Ultra RareMega Evolution166/1322025PSA 9

Air Balloon 166/132 · Mega Evolution PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$13

Fair buy $9 · sell $13Updated 23 October 2026

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Raw NM$2
PSA 9this page$13
PSA 10$38

PSA 9 sales: 5; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 1; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 6 Oct 2026; one every ~6d

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PSA 9 slabs for sale right now

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

No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.

Stock as of 23 October 2026.

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Why $13? Every PSA 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. A cert number means PSA tied the sale to a specific slab: click it to check the card, grade and serial on psacard.com. We hold 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $13; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Collector CryptFixedPrice	2026-10-12	143153686	$13.10
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Collector CryptBestOffer	2026-10-10	143153686	$13.50
Air Balloon 166/132 Mega Evolution Pokemon PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-06	—	$18.99
PSA 9 2025 POKEMON MEG EN-MEGA EVOLUTION 166 AIR BALLOON ULTRA RARE	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$15.00
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-07-12	144650744	$15.00
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-06-07	144650744	$10.00
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-06-07	152026563	$7.50
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Air Balloon 166/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-06-01	137821466	$15.00
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution Full Art Air Balloon #166 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-05-04	—	$10.80

1–8 of 9 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

2 of 6 cert-verified sales were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 6 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 10 sales across 4 months, May 2026 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$13.10▼ 24%over 366 days

2025-10-22 → 2026-10-23

The recorded PSA 9 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 $13 (Oct 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 18% since May 2026

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

136

39.5% of 344 graded

Graded higher

165

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

344

every grade, all time

Grader	9s	9.5s	Graded	Share
PSA	136	—	344	39.5%
CGC	12	2	106	11.3%
BGS	2	4	7	28.6%
SGC	0	1	1	0.0%
TAG	2	0	7	28.6%

Share is each grader’s 9s out of everything it has graded. A 9.5 sits between a 9 and a 10; PSA does not give one. Another grader’s slab is its own market and is not in the price above. Totals include slabs graded authentic only.

Is the PSA 9 supply growing?

New PSA 9 slabs from PSA’s weekly counts, each change measured between the two report days shown; the weekly counts end on 19 Oct 2026, so the population above, PSA’s newest reading, can run ahead of them. Resubmissions count as new slabs, so this is the supply that reaches the market, not new copies of the card.

New PSA 9s over 4 weeks

136 → 136, 21 Sept 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

New PSA 9s over 90 days

127 → 136, 27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

New slabs against sales: about 3.2 new PSA 9 slabs a month (27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026) against about 0.3 PSA 9 sales a month that we recorded over the last 90 days: 11 new slabs for every recorded sale. Our record holds the sales we can see (eBay, PSA’s cert-verified sales and the auction houses we read), not every sale, and most slabs graded are never sold.

PSA 9 price against PSA’s PSA 9 count

PSA 9 price

$13$11

24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026

PSA 9 copies graded

136126

24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026

Both lines on PSA’s weekly report days for Air Balloon. Side by side, not cause and effect.

Stepping up to a PSA 10

One grade apart, one Air Balloon. Today’s prices are each page’s headline; the line over time is our recorded price index for both grades.

A PSA 10 sells for $38 against $13 for a PSA 9: $25 more, or 2.9× the price of a 9.

PSA 10 price ÷ PSA 9 price

3.7×1.2×

1 Sept 202523 Oct 2026

On the index a PSA 10 was 2.9× a 9 on 23 Oct 2026, 2.7× on 20 Jul 2026, and 2.7× on 20 Oct 2025. A wider gap means the 10 has pulled further ahead of the 9.

Is Air Balloon 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

$-58

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

39.5%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-69

PSA 9 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 33 graded sales and a population of 5,111,201 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Air Balloon (Mega Evolution #166) — PSA 9 market value USD $13, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/mega-evolution/air-balloon-166/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Air Balloon (Mega Evolution #166) worth?

As of 23 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Air Balloon from Mega Evolution is worth approximately $13, with a fair range of $9 to $13.

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 — 2 at auction, 3 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 6 days.

How many PSA 9 Air Balloon exist?

PSA has graded 136 copies of Air Balloon (Mega Evolution #166) a 9, out of 344 submitted — 39.5% of the population, with 165 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Air Balloon hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-58; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 39.5% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Air Balloon a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Air Balloon has 5 recorded sales, 1 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.