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Raichu ex — Sandstorm #98, PSA 9

Rare Holo EXSandstorm98/1002003PSA 9

Raichu ex 98/100 · Sandstorm PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$1,376

Fair buy $770 · sell $1,3762.8× rawUpdated

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PSA 9 sales
19
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
9
sells regularly
Confidence
High
9 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
5d ago
one every ~9d

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: $1,257 (range $1,036–$1,484, moderate confidence, from cert #29092314, 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 $1,257
Ours $1,376
PSA low $1,036PSA high $1,484
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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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Cheapest ask $4,174 — 203% above our PSA 9 estimate of $1,376

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Why $1,376? 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
2026-09-19eBay · auctionlisting#79439178$1,376
2026-09-10eBay · fixedpricelisting#29092314$1,279
2026-09-02eBay · bestofferlisting#106070906$1,150
2026-09-01eBay · bestofferlisting#48873246$1,050
2026-08-17Fanatics · auction#94722008$990
2026-08-07eBay · bestofferlisting#48186021$1,091

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

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 105 sales across 28 quarters, Q4 2017 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$1,376▲ 350%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

$500
$1,000
$1,500
4 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept5 OctRaw NM
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 $1,077 (Q3 2026, 9 sales) · ▲ 3746% since Q4 2017

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

16 slabs have sold more than once, across 17 resales — typically 280 days apart, with a median gross price change of +60.8%. That is 16 of the 86 distinct slabs behind 105 cert-linked sales at this grade — 18.6%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#26164855Jul 2021 $99→Mar 2026 $500Over a year+405.0%
#95238936Jun 2025 $247→Feb 2026 $3196–12 months+29.1%
#72475120May 2023 $123→Jan 2026 $350Over a year+185.7%
#68269074Apr 2025 $299→Dec 2025 $3606–12 months+20.4%
#118588685Aug 2025 $300→Dec 2025 $3153–6 months+5.0%
#66525529Mar 2025 $220→Dec 2025 $2906–12 months+31.8%
#68910882Jan 2023 $131→Nov 2025 $360Over a year+175.9%
#66525527Dec 2022 $74→Nov 2025 $311Over a year+320.3%
#40745598Mar 2025 $153→Sept 2025 $3063–6 months+100.8%
#77048736Sept 2024 $128→Feb 2025 $205→Sept 2025 $3206–12 months+151.0%

Showing the 10 most recent of 16 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 19 PSA 9 sales with a median of $1,039; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 1 in the last 90 days.

1–8 of 13 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 9 median ($1,039) 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

472

22.5% of 2,097 graded

Graded higher

106

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

2,097

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 96 of 470 · TAG 3 of 22. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Raichu 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

$720

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

2390%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$736

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$149

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 145 graded sales and a population of 1,891,786 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Raichu ex and more from Sandstorm

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

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Citation

Raichu ex (Sandstorm #98) — PSA 9 market value USD $1,376, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/sandstorm/raichu-ex-98/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Raichu ex (Sandstorm #98) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Raichu ex from Sandstorm is worth approximately $1,376, with a fair range of $770 to $1,376 — about 2.8× the $491 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, 3 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 9 days.

How many PSA 9 Raichu ex exist?

PSA has graded 472 copies of Raichu ex (Sandstorm #98) a 9, out of 2,097 submitted — 22.5% of the population, with 106 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

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

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $149 grading fee is about $720; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 2390% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Raichu ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Raichu ex has 19 recorded sales, 9 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.