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Riolu — Paldean Fates #173, PSA 9

Shiny RarePaldean Fates173/0912024PSA 9

Riolu 173/91 · Paldean Fates PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$31

Fair buy $22 · sell $312.2× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$14
  • PSA 9this page$312.2×
  • PSA 10$1238.8×
PSA 9 sales
6
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
3
occasional
Confidence
Medium
3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
16d ago
one every ~16d
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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 $31? 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
2026-09-20eBay · auctionlisting#160330377$31
2026-09-04eBay · fixedpricelisting#126640693$39
2026-07-18eBay · auctionlisting#161681150$28
2026-06-23eBay · bestofferlisting#108689892sold before$25
2026-06-15eBay · fixedpricelisting#103115343$27
2026-06-08Fanatics · auction#152256495$20

3 of 6 were competitive auctions; 1 best offers and 2 fixed-price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 16 days, the median gap between cert-verified sales.

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 32 sales across 18 months, Jun 2024 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$31▲ 25%over 366 days

2025-10-04 → 2026-10-05

$23
$25
$28
$30
$33
4 OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept5 Oct
The recorded PSA 9 price index, held at the last cert-verified sale where our record lagged it, 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 $35 (Sep 2026, 2 sales) · ▲ 600% since Jun 2024

Slab history — PSA 9 copies that have sold more than once

2 slabs have sold more than once, across 2 resales. That is 2 of the 30 distinct slabs behind 32 cert-linked sales at this grade — 6.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#108689892Aug 2025 $28→Jun 2026 $256–12 months-10.7%
#94286634Aug 2024 $12→Dec 2024 $83–6 months-34.8%

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 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 6 PSA 9 sales with a median of $30; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 1 PSA 9 sales, 0 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2024 Pokémon Paldean Fates Riolu 173/91 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-09-20160330377$31.11
2024 POKEMON PAF EN-PALDEAN FATES SHINY RARE #173 RIOLU PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-19—$31.11
2024 Pokémon Paldean Fates Riolu 173/91 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2026-09-04126640693$39.00
2024 POKEMON PAF EN-PALDEAN FATES SHINY RARE #173 RIOLU PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-03—$39.00
2024 Pokémon Paldean Fates Riolu 173/91 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-07-18161681150$28.00
2024 POKEMON PAF EN-PALDEAN FATES SHINY RARE #173 RIOLU PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-07-17—$28.00
Pokemon-EN 2024 Paldean Fates Riolu 173/091 Shiny Rare PSA 9 MINTPSA 9eBay2026-06-23—$35.00
2024 Pokémon Paldean Fates Riolu 173/91 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-06-23108689892$25.00

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

168

43% of 391 graded

Graded higher

181

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

391

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: CGC 27 of 124 · TAG 8 of 13. A CGC or BGS 9 is its own market and is not in the price above.

Is Riolu 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-20

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4040%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-64

PSA 9 net of raw and fee

Grading cost

$81

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 16 graded sales and a population of 5,111,242 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Riolu and more from Paldean Fates

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

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Riolu (Paldean Fates #173) — PSA 9 market value USD $31, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/paldean-fates/riolu-173/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Riolu (Paldean Fates #173) worth?

As of 5 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Riolu from Paldean Fates is worth approximately $31, with a fair range of $22 to $31 — about 2.2× the $14 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 — 3 at auction, 1 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 16 days.

How many PSA 9 Riolu exist?

PSA has graded 168 copies of Riolu (Paldean Fates #173) a 9, out of 391 submitted — 43% of the population, with 181 graded higher. The census counts resubmissions, so it overstates the gem rate a fresh submission should expect.

Should I grade my Riolu hoping for a PSA 9?

Probably not. Weighting every grade by how often this card earns it, expected value after the $81 grading fee is about $-20; this card comes back a PSA 9 about 4040% of the time.

Is a PSA 9 Riolu a good investment?

CardTrack tracks prices; it does not give investment advice. A PSA 9 Riolu has 6 recorded sales, 3 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.