Pikachu — SM Black Star Promos #SM227, PSA 9

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Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · SM Black Star Promos PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$105

Fair buy $55 · sell $1054.3× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$24
PSA 9this page$1054.3×
PSA 10$93038×

PSA 9 sales: 16; 6 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 10; sells regularly
Confidence: High; 10 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale: 6d ago; one every ~1d

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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

Cheapest ask $88 — 16% below our PSA 9 estimate of $105

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Why $105? 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 · bestoffer	listing #128885271	$100
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #128885266	$100
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #128885257	$100
2026-09-22	eBay · bestoffer	listing #128885259 sold before	$100
2026-09-18	eBay · auction	listing #54002340 sold before	$54
2026-09-09	eBay · fixedprice	listing #54551306 sold before	$75

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

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 58 sales across 17 months, Apr 2025 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$105▲ 182%over 366 days

2025-10-05 → 2026-10-06

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 $100 (Sep 2026, 10 sales) · ▲ 669% since Apr 2025

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

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 8 resales — typically 192 days apart, with a median gross price change of +149.9%. That is 8 of the 45 distinct slabs behind 58 cert-linked sales at this grade — 17.8%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#128885268	Mar 2026 $100→Sept 2026 $105	6–12 months	+5.0%
#128885259	Jul 2026 $90→Sept 2026 $100	Under 3 months	+11.1%
#54002340	May 2026 $249→Sept 2026 $54	3–6 months	-78.3%
#54551306	May 2025 $24→Sept 2026 $75	Over a year	+212.5%
#94373145	Sept 2025 $22→Aug 2026 $66	6–12 months	+207.0%
#136165717	Apr 2026 $36→Jun 2026 $91	Under 3 months	+149.9%
#111179474	Apr 2025 $13→Apr 2026 $55	6–12 months	+340.0%
#100712500	Jun 2025 $35→Nov 2025 $30	3–6 months	-13.8%

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 16 PSA 9 sales with a median of $93; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 6

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2019 BLACK STAR #SM227 PIKACHU-HOLO MINT PROMO-FALL '19 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$83.57
2019 POKEMON SM BLACK STAR PROMO PIKACHU #SM227 PSA 9 MINT #128885268	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-30	—	$105
2019 POKEMON SM BLACK STAR PROMO PIKACHU #SM227 PSA 9 MINT #128885271	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-22	—	$105
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	128885259	$100
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	128885257	$100
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	128885266	$100
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayBestOffer	2026-09-22	128885271	$100
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayAuction	2026-09-18	54002340	$54.00
2019 POKEMON PIKACHU-HOLO PROMO-FALL '19 COLL.CHEST SM BSP #SM227 PSA 9	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-17	—	$54.00
Pokémon Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo Holo Fall '19 Chest PSA 9 2019	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-09	—	$95.00
2017 Pokémon SM Black Star Promos Pikachu PR-SM SM227 · PSA 9	PSA 9	eBayFixedPrice	2026-09-09	54551306	$75.00
Pokémon Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo Holo Fall '19 Chest PSA 9 2019	PSA 9	eBay	2026-09-06	—	$100

1–8 of 12 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

514

42% of 1,225 graded

Graded higher

156

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

1,225

every grade, all time

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

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$75

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4330%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-1

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 57 graded sales and a population of 4,410,738 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu (SM Black Star Promos #SM227) worth?

As of 6 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu from SM Black Star Promos is worth approximately $105, with a fair range of $55 to $105 — about 4.3× the $24 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, 4 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu exist?

PSA has graded 514 copies of Pikachu (SM Black Star Promos #SM227) a 9, out of 1,225 submitted — 42% of the population, with 156 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 yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $82 grading fee is about $75; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4330% 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 16 recorded sales, 10 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.