Pikachu 9/17

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Pikachu has moved up 26.1% to $119.95. PSA 10 copies are down 9.5% over the same period.

Pikachu #9/17 appears roughly 1 in 25.3 packs, which works out at 4.0% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from POP Series 6.

Pikachu #9/17 is a Uncommon, one of the higher rarity tiers in POP Series 6.

At $119.95 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $730.47, giving a net return of +$487.56 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$164.84 and PSA 8 returns −$0.35, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 781 copies of Pikachu #9/17, of which 5 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 0.6%, or roughly 1 in 156 graded copies.

Yes. At a 0.6% gem rate, Pikachu grades worse than the POP Series 6 average by 5.8 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Pikachu #9/17 was illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno, who has illustrated 1241 Pokémon cards in total.

Pikachu #9/17 was released on 1 September 2007 as part of POP Series 6. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.