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Piplup — McDonald's Collection 2021 #20, PSA 9

—McDonald's Collection 202120/252021PSA 9

Piplup 20/25 · McDonald's Collection 2021 PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$26

Fair buy $25 · sell $346.2× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$4
  • PSA 9this page$266.2×
  • PSA 10$32076×
PSA 9 sales
7
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
4
occasional
Confidence
Medium
4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
44d ago
one every ~23d
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Our published graded price for this card, checked against every cert-verified sale below. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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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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Why $26? 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
2026-08-17Fanatics · auction#146547086$26
2026-08-10Fanatics · auction#146547085$26
2026-08-03Fanatics · auction#146547087$23
2026-07-11eBay · bestofferlisting#94921754$54
2026-04-04eBay · auctionlisting#146459415$11
2026-02-27eBay · bestofferlisting#61233696$15

4 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 0 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 23 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 9 sales across 7 months, Sep 2022 to Aug 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$26▲ 121%over 5 years

2021-09-01 → 2026-09-22

$10
$20
$30
Sept 20212023202420252026Sept 2026Raw NM2021-09-01 · $122021-10-01 · $132021-11-01 · $132021-12-01 · $122022-01-01 · $132022-02-01 · $132022-03-01 · $132022-04-01 · $132022-05-01 · $132022-06-01 · $132022-07-01 · $122022-08-01 · $122022-09-01 · $112022-10-01 · $112022-11-01 · $112022-12-01 · $112023-01-01 · $112023-02-01 · $112023-03-01 · $122023-04-01 · $122023-05-01 · $122023-06-01 · $122023-07-01 · $122023-08-01 · $112023-09-01 · $112023-10-01 · $112023-11-01 · $112023-12-01 · $112024-01-01 · $112024-02-01 · $112024-03-01 · $112024-04-01 · $112024-05-01 · $112024-06-01 · $112024-07-01 · $112024-08-01 · $112024-09-01 · $112024-10-01 · $112024-11-01 · $112024-12-01 · $62025-01-01 · $82025-02-01 · $72025-03-01 · $72025-04-01 · $72025-05-01 · $92025-06-01 · $82025-07-01 · $92025-08-01 · $122025-09-01 · $132025-10-01 · $132025-11-01 · $132025-12-01 · $132026-01-01 · $122026-02-01 · $122026-03-01 · $122026-04-01 · $112026-05-01 · $112026-06-01 · $112026-07-01 · $112026-08-01 · $162026-08-29 · $282026-08-30 · $282026-08-31 · $282026-09-01 · $282026-09-02 · $262026-09-03 · $262026-09-04 · $262026-09-05 · $262026-09-06 · $262026-09-07 · $262026-09-08 · $262026-09-09 · $262026-09-10 · $262026-09-11 · $262026-09-12 · $262026-09-13 · $262026-09-14 · $262026-09-15 · $262026-09-16 · $262026-09-17 · $262026-09-18 · $262026-09-19 · $262026-09-20 · $262026-09-21 · $262026-09-22 · $26
The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, closing on the figure above.

Latest $26 (Aug 2026, 3 sales) · ▲ 136% since Sep 2022

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 7 PSA 9 sales with a median of $26; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 4 PSA 9 sales, 3 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2021 Pokémon McDonald's Collection 2021 Piplup 20/25 · PSA 9PSA 9Fanatics CollectAuction2026-08-17146547086$26.40
2021 Pokémon McDonald's Collection 2021 Piplup 20/25 · PSA 9PSA 9Fanatics CollectAuction2026-08-10146547085$26.40
2021 Pokémon McDonald's Collection 2021 Piplup 20/25 · PSA 9PSA 9Fanatics CollectAuction2026-08-03146547087$22.80
2021 POKEMON MCDONALD'S COLLECTION #20 PIPLUP-HOLO PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-07-30—$31.00
2021 Pokémon McDonald's Collection 2021 Piplup 20/25 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-07-1194921754$53.64
2021 Pokémon McDonald's 25th Anniversary Collection #20 Piplup Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-06-27—$45.00
PSA 9 Piplup Holo 2021 Pokémon McDonald's Collection 25th Anniversary #20PSA 9eBay2026-05-26—$46.00
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Mcdonald's Collection Holo Piplup #20 PSA 9 MINTPSA 9Fanatics2026-05-11—$26.40

1–8 of 11 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

343

42.3% of 811 graded

Graded higher

307

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

811

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 315 of 710 · TAG 1 of 1. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Piplup 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

$63

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4150%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-49

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$71

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 36 graded sales and a population of 4,410,324 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

More Piplup and more from McDonald's Collection 2021

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

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Piplup (McDonald's Collection 2021 #20) worth?

As of 22 September 2026, a PSA 9 mint Piplup from McDonald's Collection 2021 is worth approximately $26, with a fair range of $25 to $34 — about 6.2× the $4 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 — 4 at auction, 2 by best offer and 0 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 23 days.

How many PSA 9 Piplup exist?

PSA has graded 343 copies of Piplup (McDonald's Collection 2021 #20) a 9, out of 811 submitted — 42.3% of the population, with 307 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Piplup hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $63; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4150% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Piplup a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Piplup has 7 recorded sales, 4 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.