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Pikachu ex — Surging Sparks #238, PSA 9

Special Illustration RareSurging Sparks238/1912024PSA 9

Pikachu ex 238/191 · Surging Sparks PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$264

Fair buy $224 · sell $304Updated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$275
  • PSA 9this page$264
  • PSA 10$8553.1×
PSA 9 sales
155
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
118
sells often
Confidence
High
118 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
2d ago
one every ~1d
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 →

PSA’s own estimate for a PSA 9: $253 (range $236–$272, high confidence, from cert #146541280, 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 $253
Ours $264
PSA low $236PSA high $272
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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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PSA 9 · buy now

cheapest 6 of 7

Cheapest ask $240 — 9% below our PSA 9 estimate of $264

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Why $264? 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
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#171689882$260
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#153347681$270
2026-09-24eBay · bestofferlisting#154889842$237
2026-09-24eBay · auctionlisting#162518159$228
2026-09-24eBay · auctionlisting#132446723$228
2026-09-23eBay · auctionlisting#140135563$243

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 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 — 244 sales across 3 months, Jul 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$264▼ 17%over 366 days

2025-10-03 → 2026-10-04

$260
$280
$300
$320
3 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 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 $256 (Sep 2026, 68 sales) · ▼ 15% since Jul 2026

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

1 slab has sold more than once, across 1 resale. That is 1 of the 226 distinct slabs behind 245 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#132102447Aug 2026 $285→Sept 2026 $222Under 3 months-22.1%

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 155 PSA 9 sales with a median of $254; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 32 PSA 9 sales, 15 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokemon 2024 Pikachu ex 238/191 SIR Surging Sparks PSA 9 MintPSA 9eBay2026-10-03—$245
Pokemon PSA 9 Pikachu ex Surging Sparks - 238/191PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$230
Pokemon Pikachu ex 238/191 Sv08 Surging Sparks SIR Full Art Holo PSA 9 ENPSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$260
The Pokémon Company Pikachu ex 238/191 Sv08 SIR Full Art Holo PSA 9 2024PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$245
Pokemon 2024 Pikachu ex 238/191 SIR Surging Sparks PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-01—$250
PIKACHU EX PSA 9 2024 POKEMON SURGING SPARKS #238/191 SIR SSP EN 5266PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$223
Pikachu ex 238/191 Sv08: Surging Sparks Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-28—$250
Pikachu ex 238/191 Sv08: Surging Sparks Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-28—$258

1–8 of 22 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

15,965

51.5% of 30,982 graded

Graded higher

10,826

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

30,982

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 526 of 1,116. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Pikachu 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

$101

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

5210%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-96

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$85

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 494 graded sales and a population of 5,139,108 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Pikachu ex and more from Surging Sparks

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

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Pikachu ex (Surging Sparks #238) — PSA 9 market value USD $264, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/surging-sparks/pikachu-ex-238/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Pikachu ex (Surging Sparks #238) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Pikachu ex from Surging Sparks is worth approximately $264, with a fair range of $224 to $304 — about 1.0× the $275 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, 2 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Pikachu ex exist?

PSA has graded 15,965 copies of Pikachu ex (Surging Sparks #238) a 9, out of 30,982 submitted — 51.5% of the population, with 10,826 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

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

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $85 grading fee is about $101; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 5210% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Pikachu ex a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Pikachu ex has 155 recorded sales, 118 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.