Pikachu151 · #173/165 · Illustration Rare · 2023
“When it is angered, it immediately discharges the energy stored in the pouches in its cheeks.”— art by Hiroyuki Yamamoto
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 3 confirmed sales of this card in the last 12 months. That is too thin to call a trend, so we do not call one. PSA has graded 33,722 copies of it, 8,928 of them Gem Mint 10 — a 26.5% gem rate. The most recent sale we hold is 10 days old.
Why is it expensive? It prices in the top 4% of the catalogue because it is a illustration rare from 151 (2023).
Verdict recomputed just now · it changes as the market does.
Pikachu is card 173 in 151, released in 2023 as part of the Scarlet & Violet series. It is a Illustration Rare card, illustrated by Hiroyuki Yamamoto.
PSA reports 33,722 graded copies, 8,928 of them Gem Mint 10. We hold 3 confirmed sales on record for this card across 2 venues — every price on this page traces back to them.
Descriptive market data, not investment advice. The Hoshino Score measures how deep, liquid, widely-traded, dear and scarce this card’s market is from sales and population records we hold. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and not a rating of this card as an investment.
Price by grade
What each grade’s real sales say — median of what actually sold.
Each grade is priced on the median of its own real sales — never averaged across grades, and never across printings. A 1st Edition, Shadowless or No Rarity copy is a different market from the ordinary print, so it gets its own row; where a grade holds sales of more than one printing and we cannot tell which copy sold, it is shown without a price — we abstain rather than publish the blend.
| Tier | Price | Confidence | Liquidity | Basis | Obs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw (ungraded) | $51.29 | — | — | 4 sales · last recorded 10d ago | 4 |
| PSA 8 | — | — | — | no sales on record yet · pop 5717 | |
| PSA 9 | — | — | — | no sales on record yet · pop 17899 | |
| PSA 10 | — | — | — | no sales on record yet · pop 8928 |
Where a rung reads last recorded, its most recent sale came from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so that date is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real; the date is an observation and we will not dress it up as a timestamp.
Cross-market comparisons and arbitrage routes are computed within one grade — PSA 10 against PSA 10, raw against raw. A route is never built from two different grades.
Price trend
Median market price over time, plus the sale-by-sale receipts.
Each point is a real recorded sale at that grade, over the full time we hold. Grades trade at very different prices, so the trend is per grade — pick a grade above.
Daily snapshot medians · US market · raw bucket. — the broader raw market-price trend across the same period, alongside the graded sales above.
PSA 9 population has grown from 17,502 on 2026-08-13 to 17,899 on 2026-09-19 (+397) — real grading-population readings, not a price.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 10d ago recorded | 🇰🇷 Bunjang est. | Korea | Raw | $51.29 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-08 11d ago recorded | 🇰🇷 Bunjang est. | Korea | Raw | $51.29 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-08 12d ago recorded | 🇰🇷 Bunjang est. | Korea | Raw | $50.37 | view ↗ |
| 2026-09-19 30h ago | 🇺🇸 TCGplayer guide | North America | NM | $82.06 |
The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. The full 5-point sale-by-sale history unlocks with Pro. Venue is the marketplace the sale actually cleared on — eBay, Goldin, ALT, Fanatics, SNKRDUNK and the rest — established from the sale’s own listing URL, its auction house, or the feed’s own declaration of the venue. A via tag names the data feed that delivered the record; the feed is never the venue. Where none of those establish a marketplace the row says venue not disclosed rather than naming one we cannot prove. Rows tagged guide are marketplace price-guide points (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend), not confirmed sales; rows tagged est. are inferred from a listing that left the market, not directly-recorded sales. Rows tagged recorded come from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so the date shown is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real either way; we do not invent a date.
We hold 4 sales of this card that are not allowed to price anything. Every figure on this page was computed with them removed. See what we set aside for this card, and why →
See the 30-day, 90-day and 1-year charts and every past sale on record — date, venue, region, grade and the price it actually fetched.
Buy from around the world
The lowest live ask on every platform we track — cheapest first.
The cheapest live ask in every region we track — real global pricing, not just the US.
See every listing we track and the net spread — cheapest ask first, the difference after ~13% marketplace + payment fees.
Asks are what sellers want; the price above is what the market actually clears at. Pro shows both sides plus the spread net of fees.
Sold around the world
Daily market prices by region and platform — what this card actually changes hands for worldwide, kept apart from seller asks.
Markets are too thin or divergent to quote a reliable cross-border spread on this card yet.
Per-platform sold history builds as feeds report — the value above is the honest anchor we hold today.
Population reports
How many graded copies exist, and how fast that number is moving — scarcity in plain numbers.
PSA 33,722 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 8,928 |
| PSA 9 | 17,899 |
| PSA 8 | 5,717 |
| PSA 7 | 886 |
| PSA 6 | 213 |
| PSA 5 | 45 |
| PSA 4 | 21 |
| PSA 3 | 7 |
| PSA 2 | 4 |
| PSA 1 | 2 |
Population over time — 762 new copies slabbed across 6 tiers in this window
| Tier | Trend | 2026-08-13 | 2026-09-19 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 9 | 17,502 | 17,899 | +397 (2.3%) | |
| PSA 10 | 8,856 | 8,928 | +72 (0.8%) | |
| PSA 8 | 5,485 | 5,717 | +232 (4.2%) | |
| PSA 7 | 837 | 886 | +49 (5.9%) | |
| PSA 6 | 203 | 213 | +10 (4.9%) | |
| PSA 5 | 43 | 45 | +2 (4.7%) | |
| PSA 4 | 21 | 21 | no change | |
| PSA 3 | 7 | 7 | no change |
Every point is a real population reading taken on the date shown — first reading 2026-08-13, latest 2026-09-19 (37 days). That is the whole window we hold for this card; it is not a one-year trend and we will not present it as one. A population can only grow — a card cannot be un-graded — so where a reading came back lower than the one before it, that is a partial crawl and the series carries the higher figure forward rather than drawing a fall that never happened.
Why this matters: scarcity is a flow, not a constant. A tier whose count is climbing is getting less scarce while its price chart says nothing at all — and a tier that has not moved in weeks is holding its scarcity. Nobody else publishes this per grade.
Should you grade it?
Expected grade × daily market prices − grading fees = net value, per grader.
See the full grader ladder — chance of a 10, what a 10 and a 9 actually fetch, and the fee, expected value and ROI on every route.
Should you grade it? Every grader route, your cost basis, and Japan vs the West → · or scan a photo of your copy
The same card, in Japan
One artwork trades in two markets under different numbers. Here is the other one.
Who is looking at this card
Demand and supply signals that move before price does.
This is where the attention layer goes: how much YouTube activity this card is getting (demand) against how many copies are listed for sale right now (supply). Rising demand into falling supply is the setup that moves before the price does — the leading indicator this category does not have.
We hold no readings for this card, so there is no number here. The model is built (src/attention); the collector has not run against this database yet, and until it has, an attention score would be something we made up. A blank panel that says so is the honest version of this section.
Long-term outlook
Transparent scenario model from real solds, supply and demand — bands widen with time.
See where this card is projected to be in 10 years — scenario bands, every horizon, and the long-term verdict.
Scenario projection based on demand/supply trends and known catalysts. Not investment advice and not a guarantee of future prices.
What Pikachu actually does
The printed card — its attacks, what they cost, what it is weak to, and whether it is still tournament legal.
Pulled from
These are the sealed products from this card’s set that we price as their own markets. We are not putting an expected pull value on them: that needs published, verified pull rates per rarity, and for this set we do not hold them — our sealed engine abstains on 4,592 of the 4,596 products it tracks for exactly that reason. A pack EV computed from unverified odds would be a guess wearing a decimal point.
More from 151
Same set, same shelf.
Frequently asked questions
Answered from the data on this page — nothing here is written by hand.
How much is Pikachu (151 #173) worth?
Pikachu (151 #173) is worth $51.29 based on daily market prices (4 distinct sales) on Hoshino. Typical range: $50.37–$51.99 (raw/ungraded).
Where can I buy or sell Pikachu (151 #173)?
You can find Pikachu (151 #173) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay (US), eBay CA. Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
Is Pikachu (151 #173) going up or down in price?
Pikachu (151 #173) is trending down in price. 30-day change: -12%. 1-year change: +89%. Based on live market data tracked on Hoshino.
How many Pikachu (151 #173) have been graded?
Across PSA, 33,722 copies of Pikachu (151 #173) have been professionally graded, based on population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What is the PSA 10 population of Pikachu (151 #173)?
PSA has graded 8,928 copies of Pikachu (151 #173) as Gem Mint 10, according to population reports tracked on Hoshino.
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