Mega Lucario ex — Mega Evolution #179, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareMega Evolution179/1322025PSA 9

Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · Mega Evolution PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$171

Fair buy $145 · sell $197Updated today

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Raw NM$185
PSA 9this page$171
PSA 10$3601.9×

PSA 9 sales: 106; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 90; sells often
Confidence: High; 90 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 3d ago; 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 today. A raw copy or a reverse holo is a different product and is not in this list.

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PSA 9 · buy now

Cheapest ask $160 — 6% below our PSA 9 estimate of $171

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Why $171? 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.

Date	Sold via	Cert	Price
2026-09-25	eBay · auction	listing #152144113	$148
2026-09-24	eBay · auction	listing #155789267	$140
2026-09-22	eBay · auction	listing #159897010	$178
2026-09-21	eBay · auction	listing #169611775	$153
2026-09-19	eBay · bestoffer	listing #161118322	$160
2026-09-19	Fanatics · bestoffer	#155762513	$150

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 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 — 155 sales across 3 months, Jul 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$171▼ 53%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

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 $170 (Sep 2026, 41 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 147 distinct slabs behind 155 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#158119268	Jul 2026 $255→Sept 2026 $173	Under 3 months	-32.4%

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 106 PSA 9 sales with a median of $177; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 17 PSA 9 sales, 8 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2025 POKEMON MEG EN-MEGA EVOLUTION #179 MEGA LUCARIO ex SIR PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$149
2025 Mega Lucario EX Mega Evolution 179/132 Special Illustration Rare PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$150
2025 Pokemon Meg En Special Illustration Rare #179 Mega Lucario Ex PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-01	—	$141
The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG Mega Lucario ex 179/132 SIR Holo Eng PSA 9🔥	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$167
MEGA LUCARIO EX 2025 POKEMON MEGA EVOLUTION 179/132 SIR PSA 9 Q3963-5	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$155
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-29	—	$147
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario Ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-29	—	$169
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-29	—	$135
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario Ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$144
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario Ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-09-28	—	$138
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-25	152144113	$148
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-24	155789267	$140
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-22	159897010	$178
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-21	169611775	$153
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	Fanatics CollectBestOffer	2026-09-19	155762513	$150
2025 Pokémon Mega Evolution Mega Lucario ex 179/132 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-19	161118322	$160
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-31	—	$180
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-31	—	$186
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario Ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$168
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-17	—	$180
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-10	—	$174
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution SIR Mega Lucario ex #179 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-08-03	—	$168

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

6,508

30.7% of 21,222 graded

Graded higher

13,650

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

21,222

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 292 of 870. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Mega Lucario ex 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

Close call

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$24

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

3080%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-97

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$83

tier fee + shipping

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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 524 graded sales and a population of 5,127,426 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Mega Lucario ex (Mega Evolution #179) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Mega Lucario ex from Mega Evolution is worth approximately $171, with a fair range of $145 to $197 — about 0.9× the $185 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, 2 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Mega Lucario ex exist?

PSA has graded 6,508 copies of Mega Lucario ex (Mega Evolution #179) a 9, out of 21,222 submitted — 30.7% of the population, with 13,650 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Mega Lucario ex hoping for a PSA 9?

It is close. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $83 grading fee is about $24; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 3080% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Mega Lucario ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Mega Lucario ex has 106 recorded sales, 90 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.