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Piplup — Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #42, PSA 10

PromoMega Evolution Black Star PromosMEP 0422025PSA 10

Piplup MEP 42 · Mega Evolution Black Star Promos PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$51

Fair buy $51 · sell $884.3× rawUpdated

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  • Raw NM$12
  • PSA 9$201.7×
  • PSA 10this page$514.3×
PSA 10 sales
105
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
96
sells often
Confidence
High
96 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
4d ago
one every ~1d
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PSA 10 slabs for sale right now

Live asks for a PSA 10 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 $51? 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.

DateSold viaCertPrice
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#159869292$45
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#163871385$48
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#160210090$45
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#167992051$94
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#168087771$77
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#160257481$50

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 3 best offers and 1 fixed-price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 10 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 10 sales — 998 sales across 3 months, Jul 2026 to Sep 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$51▼ 75%over 186 days

2026-04-01 → 2026-10-04

$100
$200
$300
1 AprMayJunJulAugSept4 Oct
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.

Latest $51 (Sep 2026, 452 sales) · ▼ 43% since Jul 2026

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

2 slabs have sold more than once, across 2 resales. That is 2 of the 966 distinct slabs behind 998 cert-linked sales at this grade — 0.2%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#161129065Jul 2026 $149→Sept 2026 $50Under 3 months-66.4%
#161472645Jul 2026 $90→Sept 2026 $29Under 3 months-68.0%

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 105 PSA 10 sales with a median of $42; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 11 PSA 10 sales, 8 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2026 Pokemon Mep En-Me Black Star Promo #042 Piplup First Partner PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$55.00
2026 POKEMON FIRST PARTNER ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION PROMO #042 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$39.69
2026 POKEMON MEP FIRST PARTNER ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION #042 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$43.00
PIPLUP PSA 10 2026 POKEMON MEP EN BSP #042 FIRST PARTNER ILLUSTRATION COLL 8678PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$42.00
2026 POKEMON MEP FIRST PARTNER ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION #042 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$45.00
2026 POKEMON FIRST PARTNER ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION PROMO #042 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-10-01—$44.00
2026 Pokemon Mega Promo First Partner Illustration S1 Full Art Piplup #42 PSA 10PSA 10Fanatics2026-09-30—$55.00
2026 Pokemon Mega Evolution Promo First Partner Illustration S1 Full Art Piplup PSA 10Fanatics2026-09-30—$40.00

1–8 of 20 sales · 6 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

The ledger’s PSA 10 median ($42) sits below the published price above. The median is every recorded sale weighted equally; the price is the cert-verified market with outliers and qualified slabs removed, and is what the latest sales support.

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

10,309

82.1% of 12,552 graded

Share of every submission

82.1%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

12,552

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: TAG 491 of 694. A CGC or BGS 10 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 10 outcome is one leg, not the whole answer.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-49

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

7720%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$-41

PSA 10 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$80

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 712 graded sales and a population of 5,111,732 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Piplup (Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #42) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Piplup from Mega Evolution Black Star Promos is worth approximately $51, with a fair range of $51 to $88 — about 4.3× the $12 raw near-mint price.

Where does the PSA 10 price come from?

From 6 cert-verified PSA 10 sales, each tied by PSA to a specific slab with a public cert number — 2 at auction, 3 by best offer and 1 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 10 Piplup exist?

PSA has graded 10,309 copies of Piplup (Mega Evolution Black Star Promos #42) a 10, out of 12,552 submitted — 82.1% of the population. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Piplup hoping for a PSA 10?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $80 grading fee is about $-49; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 7720% of the time.

Is a PSA 10 Piplup a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 10 Piplup has 105 recorded sales, 96 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.