Iron Valiant ex — Paradox Rift #249, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareParadox Rift249/1822023PSA 9

Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · Paradox Rift PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$31

Fair buy $27 · sell $361.6× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$20
PSA 9this page$311.6×
PSA 10$1175.8×

PSA 9 sales: 26; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 13; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 13 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 3d ago; one every ~4d

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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

The Pokémon Company Iron Valiant ex 249/182 SV04 Paradox Rift SIR Holo PSA 9 ENPSA 9eBay$24.99

Cheapest ask $25 — 20% below our PSA 9 estimate of $31

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Why $31? 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
2026-09-22	eBay · auction	listing #111613188	$24
2026-09-17	eBay · auction	listing #152743228	$23
2026-09-16	eBay · auction	listing #98099933	$30
2026-09-11	eBay · fixedprice	listing #91753187	$30
2026-09-10	eBay · bestoffer	listing #108907263	$38
2026-09-06	eBay · auction	listing #169519689	$33

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 4 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 487 sales across 34 months, Dec 2023 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$31▼ 2%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

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 $30 (Sep 2026, 9 sales) · ▼ 44% since Dec 2023

Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once

31 slabs have sold more than once, across 31 resales — typically 298 days apart, with a median gross price change of +3.6%. That is 31 of the 437 distinct slabs behind 487 cert-linked sales at this grade — 7.1%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#136654944	Feb 2026 $19→Sept 2026 $30	6–12 months	+62.1%
#105429230	Apr 2025 $32→Sept 2026 $30	Over a year	-6.2%
#106748832	May 2025 $20→Jul 2026 $27	Over a year	+38.5%
#93418732	Mar 2025 $43→Jul 2026 $25	Over a year	-41.3%
#113027775	Jul 2025 $25→Jun 2026 $32	6–12 months	+28.1%
#119578061	Feb 2026 $17→Jun 2026 $28	3–6 months	+64.7%
#112239117	Sept 2025 $25→Jun 2026 $40	6–12 months	+60.0%
#101138380	Jan 2025 $35→May 2026 $25	Over a year	-28.6%
#104559060	May 2025 $22→Apr 2026 $28	6–12 months	+30.2%
#87401308	Apr 2024 $31→Apr 2026 $29	Over a year	-7.1%

Showing the 10 most recent of 31 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 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 26 PSA 9 sales with a median of $32; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 4 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
Iron Valiant EX 249/182 Special Illustration Rare Pokemon Paradox Rift PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-10-02	—	$22.50
Pokemon Company Iron Valiant ex 249/182 Paradox Rift SIR Holo ENG 2023 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-29	—	$16.50
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Iron Valiant ex #249 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	Fanatics	2026-09-25	—	$22.00
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-22	111613188	$23.51
2023 Pokemon Par En Special Illustration Rare #249 Iron Valiant Ex PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-21	—	$23.51
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-17	152743228	$22.50
2023 Pokemon Par En Special Illustration Rare #249 Iron Valiant Ex PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-16	—	$22.50
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-16	98099933	$29.88
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-11	91753187	$29.99
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-10	108907263	$37.99
Pokemon Iron Valiant ex 249/182 Paradox Rift PSA 9 Special Illustration Rare 🔥	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-09	—	$37.99
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ex 249/182 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-06	169519689	$33.00
2023 POKEMON PAR EN-PARADOX RIFT SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE IRON VALIANT EX PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-05	—	$33.00
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Iron Valiant ex #249 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-06-08	—	$33.60
2023 Pokemon SV Paradox Rift Special Illustration Iron Valiant ex #249 PSA 9	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-04-13	—	$28.80
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Iron Valiant EX #249 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-30	—	$25.20
2023 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Paradox Rift SIR Iron Valiant EX #249 PSA 9 MINT	PSA 9	FanaticsAuction	2026-03-30	—	$37.20

1–8 of 17 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

2,953

50.6% of 5,836 graded

Graded higher

2,169

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

5,836

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 61 of 131. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Iron Valiant 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-38

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5040%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-70

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 106 graded sales and a population of 5,116,625 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Iron Valiant ex (Paradox Rift #249) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Iron Valiant ex from Paradox Rift is worth approximately $31, with a fair range of $27 to $36 — about 1.6× the $20 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, 1 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 4 days.

How many PSA 9 Iron Valiant ex exist?

PSA has graded 2,953 copies of Iron Valiant ex (Paradox Rift #249) a 9, out of 5,836 submitted — 50.6% of the population, with 2,169 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Iron Valiant ex hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-38; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5040% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Iron Valiant ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Iron Valiant ex has 26 recorded sales, 13 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.