CommonXY42/1462014PSA 10

Pikachu 42/146 · XY PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$710

Fair buy $710 · sell $781 (±10%)86× rawUpdated today

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Raw NM$8
PSA 9$14918×
PSA 10this page$71086×

PSA 10 sales: 4; 4 cert-verified
Last 90 days: 0; rare
Confidence: Low; Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale: 116d ago; one every ~1081d

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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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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Why $710? Cert-verified PSA 10 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
2025-04-09	eBay · bestoffer	listing #26806963 sold before	$40
2024-06-24	eBay · auction	listing #73922082	$73
2020-09-01	eBay · auction	#26806963 sold before	$46
2017-09-16	eBay · fixedprice	#26806963 sold before	$20

2 of 4 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1,081 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

PSA 10 · index · latest

$710▲ 694%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

Ratio (log) price axis — this range spans 16×, and a linear axis would flatten its early stretch into the floor. The recorded PSA 10 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.

Slab history — PSA 10 copies that have sold more than once

1 slab has sold more than once, across 3 resales. That is 1 of the 2 distinct slabs behind 5 cert-linked sales at this grade — 50%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

Cert	Sales of this slab	Between	Gross change
#26806963	Sept 2017 $20→Sept 2020 $46→Apr 2025 $40→Apr 2026 $710	6–12 months	+3451.8%

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 10 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 4 PSA 10 sales with a median of $675; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to.

GraderGradeCert-verified only 4

	Grade	Venue	Date	Certificate	Price
2014 Pokemon XY Lego Movie Exclusive Cosmos Holo Pikachu #42 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-06-11	—	$1,999
2014 Pokemon XY Lego Movie Exclusive Cosmos Holo Pikachu #42 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-03-30	—	$720
2014 Pokemon XY Lego Movie Exclusive Cosmos Holo Pikachu #42 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2026-02-23	—	$630
2014 Pokemon XY Lego Movie Exclusive Cosmos Holo Pikachu #42 PSA 10 GEM MINT	PSA 10	Fanatics	2025-07-28	—	$528
2014 Pokémon XY Pikachu 42/146 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayBestOffer	2025-04-09	26806963	$40.00
2014 Pokémon XY Pikachu 42/146 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2024-06-24	73922082	$73.24
2014 Pokémon XY Pikachu 42/146 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayAuction	2020-09-01	26806963	$46.00
2014 Pokémon XY Pikachu 42/146 · PSA 10	PSA 10	eBayFixedPrice	2017-09-16	26806963	$19.99

1–8 of 8 sales · 4 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

How many PSA 10 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 10 population

7.5% of 294 graded

Share of every submission

7.5%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

294

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: CGC 153 of 1,586. A CGC or BGS 10 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 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$23

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

960%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$615

PSA 10 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 50 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Pikachu (XY #42) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Pikachu from XY is worth approximately $710, with a fair range of $710 to $781 — about 86× the $8 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 4 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 2 at auction, 1 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1,081 days.

How many PSA 10 Pikachu exist?

PSA has graded 22 copies of Pikachu (XY #42) a 10, out of 294 submitted — 7.5% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Pikachu hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $23; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 960% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Pikachu a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Pikachu has 4 recorded sales, and the slab-history table above shows what happened to copies that sold twice. Read those before you read anyone's forecast.