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Mela — Paradox Rift #254, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareParadox Rift254/1822023PSA 9

Mela 254/182 · Paradox Rift PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$15

Fair buy $15 · sell $231.5× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$10
  • PSA 9this page$151.5×
  • PSA 10$696.9×
PSA 9 sales
12
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
6
occasional
Confidence
Medium
6 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
14 Oct 2026
one every ~11d
ViewingPSA 9Raw / ungraded →PSA 10 →

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 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 .

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Why $15? 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 12 PSA 9 sales with a median of $20; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 5 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
- PSA 9 - Mela 254/182 SV04: Paradox Rift HoloPSA 9eBay2026-10-14—$19.99
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Mela 254/182 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-10-0392663105$10.70
POKEMON MELA 2023 PARADOX RIFT #254 SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE PSA 9 *CRACK*PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$10.70
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Mela 254/182 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-09-28164022437$27.06
2023 POKEMON PAR EN-PARADOX RIFT SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION RARE #254 MELA PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-27—$27.06
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Mela 254/182 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-08-30112599933$23.95
PSA 9 MINT Mela 254/182 Special Illustration Rare SIR Pokemon Paradox RiftPSA 9eBay2026-08-29—$23.95
2023 Pokémon Paradox Rift Mela 254/182 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-08-1996501862$21.50

1–8 of 18 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

2 of 6 cert-verified sales were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 11 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($20) 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.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 19 sales across 11 months, Apr 2025 to Oct 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$15.00▼ 1%over 366 days

2025-10-21 → 2026-10-22

$13
$14
$15
$16
21 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept22 Oct
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 $11 (Oct 2026, 1 sale) · ▼ 35% since Apr 2025

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

817

53.8% of 1,518 graded

Graded higher

511

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

1,518

every grade, all time

Grader9s9.5sGradedShare
PSA817—1,51853.8%
CGC904632827.4%
BGS1562657.7%
SGC210385.3%
TAG1603250.0%

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

+1

816 → 817, 21 Sept 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

New PSA 9s over 90 days

+14

803 → 817, 27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026

New slabs against sales: about 5 new PSA 9 slabs a month (27 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026) against about 2 PSA 9 sales a month that we recorded over the last 90 days: 2.5 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
$16$15
24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026
PSA 9 copies graded
817803
24 Jul 202619 Oct 2026

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

Stepping up to a PSA 10

One grade apart, one Mela. 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 $69 against $15 for a PSA 9: $54 more, or 4.6× the price of a 9.

PSA 10 price ÷ PSA 9 price
8.1×2.7×
1 Nov 202322 Oct 2026

On the index a PSA 10 was 4.6× a 9 on 22 Oct 2026, 4.6× on 22 Jul 2026, and 4.3× on 22 Oct 2025. A wider gap means the 10 has pulled further ahead of the 9.

Is Mela 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

$-57

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

53.8%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-75

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 37 graded sales and a population of 5,112,369 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Mela and more from Paradox Rift

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

Cite this PSA 9 pricefree with attribution

Citation

Mela (Paradox Rift #254) — PSA 9 market value USD $15, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/paradox-rift/mela-254/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Mela (Paradox Rift #254) worth?

As of 22 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Mela from Paradox Rift is worth approximately $15, with a fair range of $15 to $23 — about 1.5× the $10 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, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 11 days.

How many PSA 9 Mela exist?

PSA has graded 817 copies of Mela (Paradox Rift #254) a 9, out of 1,518 submitted — 53.8% of the population, with 511 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Mela 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 $-57; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 53.8% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Mela a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Mela has 12 recorded sales, 6 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.