The four Delta Reign prerelease promos are Masquerain, Magmortar, Enamorus and Kommo-o; a Garchomp LV.X made $900,000 and a First Edition Neo Revelation Ampharos $600,000; Team Rocket's Ambition ends tomorrow and Pocket's next set lands Wednesday.
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The Illustrator PSA 10 is one of one. The Raincoat Pikachu PSA 10 that sold for $8.4 million overnight is one of 57. The gap between those two facts is the difference between a grade premium and a trophy premium, and it matters for the other 56 owners.
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Second consecutive paused reading: Rip Station's pricing engine has not published new lane prices since September 15, so both baskets read 0.0% with every card unchanged. We are holding the Index until the feed resumes and will compare the first reading back against September 14.
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The six most expensive public Pokemon sales of 2026, and four of them happened since September 10. Two are 2015 contest promos, one is a 2004 Gold Star, three are the Illustrator. The ladder is no longer one card and a gap.
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A PSA 10 2015 Art Academy Raincoat Pikachu closed at Fanatics Collect overnight for $8.4 million after 64 bids, the second most expensive Pokemon card ever sold. Days earlier an Art Academy Mudkip made $3.72 million to lead a $6.7 million week.
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A 2015 Art Academy Raincoat Pikachu closes at $8.4 million overnight to become the second most expensive Pokemon card ever sold, days after an Art Academy Mudkip made $3.72 million and a Garchomp LV.X $900,000.
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The Pokemon Company revealed a Zarude and an Azurill illustration rare from Delta Reign, Team Rocket's Ambition wraps in Pocket on September 29 with a new set on September 30, and PSA's next update is October 6.
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This issue's quiz card is the 1999 Japanese CD Promo Charizard in PSA 6, our mark $866, loaded in the new $1,000 machine. The Pokemon Song Best Collection promos were handled, not stored; a 6 is the normal grade and the card carries value in any grade.
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Both baskets read 0.0% with every card unchanged. That is not a market reading: Rip Station's pricing engine has not published new lane prices since September 15, so there is nothing to compare. We are holding the Index until the feed resumes.
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Eight weeks, 3.4 million cards, a steady 450,000 to 500,000 a week. At that pace the 5 million threshold for the Value tiers arrives in late November; here is the arithmetic and what could move it either way.
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PSA's September 22 update: 9 million cards, down 900,000 in two weeks and 3.4 million from July. A new Standard tier at $59.99 opened September 14 with a 90-100 business day quote, queued behind the paused Value orders. The Value threshold is still 5 million.
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PSA's backlog falls to 9 million, 27 percent off the July peak, with a new $59.99 Standard tier queued behind the paused Value orders, and The Pokemon Company reveals the first Delta Reign cards outside the headliners.
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