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Pikachu — POP Series 5 #12, PSA 9

CommonPOP Series 512/172007PSA 9

Pikachu 12/17 · POP Series 5 PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$700

Fair buy $630 · sell $700 (±10%)2.4× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$293
  • PSA 9this page$7002.4×
  • PSA 10$2,0006.8×
PSA 9 sales
11
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
3
occasional
Confidence
Medium
3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
1d ago
one every ~6d

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 · 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 $700? 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
2026-09-22eBay · bestofferlisting#167112405$500
2026-09-16eBay · auctionlisting#100810453$324
2026-09-04eBay · bestofferlisting#62697841sold before$680
2026-08-20eBay · fixedpricelisting#147788707$400
2026-08-17eBay · bestofferlisting#156312067$462
2026-08-16eBay · fixedpricelisting#48550875sold before$399

1 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 6 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 58 sales across 26 months, Apr 2020 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$700▲ 716%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

$50
$100
$200
$500
5 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept6 OctRaw NM
Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 9×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. 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 $590 (Sep 2026, 4 sales) · ▲ 2850% since Apr 2020

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

10 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 191 days apart, with a median gross price change of +215.0%. That is 10 of the 47 distinct slabs behind 61 cert-linked sales at this grade — 21.3%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#62697841Jul 2026 $299→Sept 2026 $680Under 3 months+127.4%
#48550875Feb 2026 $165→Aug 2026 $3996–12 months+141.9%
#142843112May 2026 $210→Jul 2026 $275Under 3 months+31.0%
#70857587Feb 2023 $34→Jun 2026 $300Over a year+782.4%
#44368937Apr 2020 $10→Jun 2026 $228Over a year+2077.0%
#94908015Mar 2026 $200→May 2026 $300Under 3 months+50.0%
#123948491Oct 2025 $46→May 2026 $3996–12 months+767.4%
#92119400Jul 2025 $48→Nov 2025 $1103–6 months+129.1%
#25330035Oct 2022 $47→Jul 2025 $200Over a year+328.7%
#69055304Apr 2024 $19→Mar 2025 $606–12 months+215.0%

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 11 PSA 9 sales with a median of $315; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 2 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

1–8 of 14 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($315) sits below 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 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

142

35.8% of 397 graded

Graded higher

36

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

397

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 103 of 673 · TAG 1 of 10. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Pikachu 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

$-132

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

440%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$325

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$82

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 118 graded sales and a population of 1,306,111 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Pikachu and more from POP Series 5

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

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Pikachu (POP Series 5 #12) — PSA 9 market value USD $700, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/pop-series-5/pikachu-12/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu (POP Series 5 #12) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu from POP Series 5 is worth approximately $700, with a fair range of $630 to $700 — about 2.4× the $293 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 — 1 at auction, 3 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 6 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu exist?

PSA has graded 142 copies of Pikachu (POP Series 5 #12) a 9, out of 397 submitted — 35.8% of the population, with 36 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Pikachu hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $82 grading fee is about $-132; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 440% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Pikachu a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu has 11 recorded sales, 3 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.