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Altaria ex — Paradox Rift #253, PSA 10

Special Illustration RareParadox Rift253/1822023PSA 10

Altaria ex 253/182 · Paradox Rift PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$257

Fair buy $189 · sell $3484.7× rawUpdated

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  • Raw NM$55
  • PSA 9$581.1×
  • PSA 10this page$2574.7×
PSA 10 sales
41
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
24
sells often
Confidence
High
24 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d 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 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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 $257? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2026-09-23eBay · fixedpricelisting#112076727$265
2026-09-17eBay · auctionlisting#98561151$258
2026-09-17eBay · auctionlisting#94579046sold before$233
2026-09-14Fanatics · auction#134405406$252
2026-09-13eBay · auctionlisting#126532547sold before$301
2026-09-12eBay · auctionlisting#113945385$283

5 of 6 were competitive auctions; 0 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 626 sales across 34 months, Jan 2024 to Oct 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$257▲ 7%over 366 days

2025-10-06 → 2026-10-07

$200
$250
$300
$350
6 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept7 Oct
The recorded PSA 10 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 $260 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▲ 132% since Jan 2024

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

61 slabs have sold more than once, across 67 resales — typically 210 days apart, with a median gross price change of +54.3%. That is 61 of the 531 distinct slabs behind 626 cert-linked sales at this grade — 11.5%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#94579046Jan 2025 $150→Sept 2026 $233Over a year+55.0%
#126532547Feb 2026 $250→Sept 2026 $3016–12 months+20.4%
#120593064May 2026 $390→Sept 2026 $2803–6 months-28.2%
#84891737Dec 2025 $178→Sept 2026 $3106–12 months+74.2%
#113752321Jul 2025 $175→Aug 2026 $328Over a year+87.2%
#95221255Aug 2024 $99→Aug 2026 $298Over a year+201.3%
#99430395Mar 2025 $202→Aug 2026 $365Over a year+80.7%
#115831741Aug 2025 $176→Aug 2026 $3716–12 months+111.4%
#94552382Sept 2024 $98→Jul 2026 $385Over a year+292.9%
#108565360Dec 2025 $203→Jul 2026 $3956–12 months+95.1%

Showing the 10 most recent of 61 slabs with a history. 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 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 41 PSA 10 sales with a median of $310; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 11 PSA 10 sales, 4 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Altaria EX #253 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10Fanatics2026-10-05—$204
Pokemon Paradox Rift Altaria ex 253/182 SIR Holo PSA 10 EN 2023PSA 10eBay2026-09-26—$290
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Altaria ex 253/182 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayFixedPrice2026-09-23112076727$265
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Altaria ex 253/182 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayAuction2026-09-1794579046$233
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Altaria ex 253/182 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayAuction2026-09-1798561151$258
POKEMON ALTARIA ex 2023 PARADOX RIFT #253 SPECIAL ILLU RARE PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-16—$233
Altaria ex #253 SIR Paradox Rift 2023 Pokemon PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-16—$258
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Altaria Ex #253 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10Fanatics2026-09-14—$210

1–8 of 17 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($310) sits above the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

How many PSA 10 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 10 population

2,073

28.9% of 7,173 graded

Share of every submission

28.9%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

7,173

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: TAG 50 of 229. A CGC or BGS 10 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Altaria ex worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — the PSA 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-21

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

2950%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$120

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

tier fee + shipping

Trader

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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.

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  • 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 111 graded sales and a population of 5,117,802 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Altaria ex (Paradox Rift #253) — PSA 10 market value USD $257, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/paradox-rift/altaria-ex-253/psa-10

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Altaria ex (Paradox Rift #253) worth?

As of 7 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Altaria ex from Paradox Rift is worth approximately $257, with a fair range of $189 to $348 — about 4.7× the $55 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 5 at auction, 0 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 10 Altaria ex exist?

PSA has graded 2,073 copies of Altaria ex (Paradox Rift #253) a 10, out of 7,173 submitted — 28.9% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Altaria ex hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-21; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 2950% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Altaria ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Altaria ex has 41 recorded sales, 24 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.