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Ultra Ball — Sun & Moon #161, PSA 9

Rare SecretSun & Moon161/1492017PSA 9

Ultra Ball 161/149 · Sun & Moon PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$23

Fair buy $23 · sell $40Updated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$25
  • PSA 9this page$23
  • PSA 10$1586.3×
PSA 9 sales
5
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
2
rare
Confidence
Low
Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale
6d ago
one every ~13d

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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Cheapest ask $84 — 266% above our PSA 9 estimate of $23

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Why $23? 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
2026-08-30eBay · auctionlisting#80011868$23
2026-06-29eBay · bestofferlisting#54007387$30
2026-06-24eBay · auctionlisting#83356903$23
2026-06-24eBay · auctionlisting#83356904$21
2026-05-17eBay · bestofferlisting#108718016$40
2026-05-04eBay · bestofferlisting#148865913$27

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 13 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Quarterly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 89 sales across 32 quarters, Q3 2017 to Q3 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$23▼ 40%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$20
$30
$40
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 OctRaw NM
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 $23 (Q3 2026, 1 sale) · ▼ 67% since Q3 2017

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

8 slabs have sold more than once, across 8 resales — typically 899 days apart, with a median gross price change of -9.1%. That is 8 of the 77 distinct slabs behind 89 cert-linked sales at this grade — 10.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#27502762Oct 2017 $58→Jun 2025 $27Over a year-53.4%
#41643791Mar 2019 $39→Apr 2023 $22Over a year-43.8%
#46291831Aug 2020 $40→Oct 2020 $45Under 3 months+12.5%
#27008356Jul 2018 $44→Aug 2020 $40Over a year-9.1%
#28678646Feb 2018 $56→Jul 2020 $42Over a year-25.0%
#27880743Sept 2017 $51→May 2020 $27Over a year-47.9%
#27228228Mar 2018 $46→Mar 2020 $85Over a year+84.8%
#41494734Jan 2019 $26→Mar 2019 $50Under 3 months+92.1%

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 5 PSA 9 sales with a median of $23; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

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

409

51.3% of 797 graded

Graded higher

202

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

797

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 85 of 204 · TAG 1 of 4. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Ultra Ball 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

$-49

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5030%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-83

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 21 graded sales and a population of 4,410,351 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Citation

Ultra Ball (Sun & Moon #161) — PSA 9 market value USD $23, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/sun-moon/ultra-ball-161/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Ultra Ball (Sun & Moon #161) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Ultra Ball from Sun & Moon is worth approximately $23, with a fair range of $23 to $40 — about 0.9× the $25 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 — 3 at auction, 3 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 13 days.

How many PSA 9 Ultra Ball exist?

PSA has graded 409 copies of Ultra Ball (Sun & Moon #161) a 9, out of 797 submitted — 51.3% of the population, with 202 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Ultra Ball 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 $-49; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5030% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Ultra Ball a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Ultra Ball has 5 recorded sales, 2 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.