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Charizard ex — Obsidian Flames #223, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareObsidian Flames223/1972023PSA 9

Charizard ex 223/197 · Obsidian Flames PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$126

Fair buy $107 · sell $1451.1× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$110
  • PSA 9this page$1261.1×
  • PSA 10$7506.8×
PSA 9 sales
195
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
164
sells often
Confidence
High
164 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
one every ~1d
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Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $139 (range $126–$152, high confidence, from cert #82849469, checked ). Our price sits inside PSA’s range. PSA builds it from the same auction records we track, so it is a cross-check, not a second source.

Checked against PSAInside PSA’s range
PSA $139
Ours $126
PSA low $126PSA high $152
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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.

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

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Why $126? 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#133679537$110
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#99306770$120
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#128959430$119
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#111699564$138
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#120140564$123
2026-09-25eBay · fixedpricelisting#152874354$136

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 3 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 — 385 sales across 4 months, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$126▲ 21%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$100
$120
$140
$160
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 OctRaw NM
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 $130 (Sep 2026, 116 sales) · ▼ 2% since Jun 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 195 PSA 9 sales with a median of $140; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 27 PSA 9 sales, 8 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2023 Pokemon Obsidian Flames Charizard ex SIR 223/197 PSA 9 Mint OBF ENPSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$140
2023 Pokemon Charizard ex #223 Pokemon Obsidian Flames PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$112
Charizard EX 223/197 Sv03: Obsidian Flames Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$130
Pokemon Charizard ex 223/197 SV03 Obsidian Flames SIR Holo EN PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$115
2023 POKEMON CHARIZARD ex SPECIAL IR OBSIDIAN FLAMES #223 PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$120
PSA 9 Mint Charizard ex SIR English 223/197 Obsidian Flames Pokemon 2023PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$130
CHARIZARD EX PSA 9 2023 POKEMON SV OBSIDIAN FLAMES #223/197 SIR OBF 5192PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$134
The Pokémon Company Charizard ex 223/197 Obsidian Flames Holo ENG 2023 PSA 9 SIRPSA 9eBay2026-09-28—$140

1–8 of 21 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

29,216

50.6% of 57,705 graded

Graded higher

12,935

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

57,705

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 710 of 1,621. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Charizard 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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$68

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5090%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-67

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$83

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 593 graded sales and a population of 5,166,191 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Charizard ex and more from Obsidian Flames

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

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Charizard ex (Obsidian Flames #223) — PSA 9 market value USD $126, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/obsidian-flames/charizard-ex-223/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Charizard ex (Obsidian Flames #223) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Charizard ex from Obsidian Flames is worth approximately $126, with a fair range of $107 to $145 — about 1.1× the $110 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 — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 3 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Charizard ex exist?

PSA has graded 29,216 copies of Charizard ex (Obsidian Flames #223) a 9, out of 57,705 submitted — 50.6% of the population, with 12,935 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Charizard ex hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $83 grading fee is about $68; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5090% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Charizard ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Charizard ex has 195 recorded sales, 164 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.