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Piplup — Phantasmal Flames #98, PSA 10

Illustration RarePhantasmal Flames098/0942025PSA 10

Piplup 98/94 · Phantasmal Flames PSA 10 price

PSA 10 · gem mint slab

$103

Fair buy $98 · sell $1327.8× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$13
  • PSA 9$251.9×
  • PSA 10this page$1037.8×
PSA 10 sales
68
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
48
sells often
Confidence
High
48 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d 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.

No live listings in our latest snapshot for this grade — the marketplaces above search it directly.

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Why $103? 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#171256841$90
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#155162746$97
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#161899110$90
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#161247143$90
2026-09-26eBay · fixedpricelisting#164305515$100
2026-09-25eBay · auctionlisting#155530561$91

2 of 6 were competitive auctions; 2 best offers and 2 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 — 1,064 sales across 10 months, Nov 2025 to Sep 2026.

PSA 10 · index · latest

$103▼ 41%over 337 days

2025-11-01 → 2026-10-04

$50
$100
$150
$200
1 NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 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 $100 (Sep 2026, 100 sales) · ▼ 50% since Nov 2025

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

14 slabs have sold more than once, across 14 resales — typically 72 days apart, with a median gross price change of -24.4%. That is 14 of the 1,024 distinct slabs behind 1,065 cert-linked sales at this grade — 1.4%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#141078060Jul 2026 $150→Sept 2026 $90Under 3 months-40.0%
#155808673May 2026 $165→Aug 2026 $1133–6 months-31.8%
#145918993May 2026 $161→Aug 2026 $113Under 3 months-29.9%
#142990078May 2026 $170→Aug 2026 $129Under 3 months-24.4%
#154324377Jun 2026 $170→Aug 2026 $126Under 3 months-25.8%
#140698263Feb 2026 $144→Jun 2026 $1633–6 months+13.4%
#139157316Apr 2026 $126→Jun 2026 $180Under 3 months+42.8%
#148060515Mar 2026 $116→Jun 2026 $166Under 3 months+43.7%
#140419817Jan 2026 $268→Jun 2026 $1663–6 months-38.2%
#146113819Apr 2026 $134→May 2026 $200Under 3 months+49.8%

Showing the 10 most recent of 14 slabs with a history. 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 68 PSA 10 sales with a median of $118; the ledger names its most recent eight, which is what this table can link to. Fanatics alone: 14 PSA 10 sales, 9 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokemon Card - Piplup 098/094 IR PSA 10 - Phantasmal Flames {678}PSA 10eBay2026-10-02—$92.38
POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES #098 PIPLUP ILLUSTRATION RARE PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-30—$83.00
2025 POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES ILLUSTRATION RARE #098 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-30—$99.95
Piplup 098/094 Illustration Rare Pfl En-Phantasmal Flames Pokemon PSA 10 2025PSA 10eBay2026-09-29—$99.50
2025 Pokemon Phantasmal Flames Piplup Illustration Rare #098/094 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10eBay2026-09-29—$83.00
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution Phantasmal Flames IR Piplup #98 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10FanaticsAuction2026-09-28—$96.00
2025 POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES ILLUSTRATION RARE #098 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-27—$97.00
2025 POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES ILLUSTRATION RARE #098 PIPLUP PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-27—$96.00

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

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

9,841

50.4% of 19,509 graded

Share of every submission

50.4%

the census gem rate — a ceiling

Total PSA graded

19,509

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 10: TAG 433 of 967. 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

$-32

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 10

4880%

of submissions, by the census

Best case

$9

PSA 10 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 334 graded sales and a population of 5,123,646 · fees as of 2026-10-03.

More Piplup and more from Phantasmal Flames

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

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Piplup (Phantasmal Flames #98) — PSA 10 market value USD $103, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/phantasmal-flames/piplup-98/psa-10

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 10 Piplup (Phantasmal Flames #98) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 10 gem mint Piplup from Phantasmal Flames is worth approximately $103, with a fair range of $98 to $132 — about 7.8× the $13 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, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 10 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 10 Piplup exist?

PSA has graded 9,841 copies of Piplup (Phantasmal Flames #98) a 10, out of 19,509 submitted — 50.4% 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 $81 grading fee is about $-32; this card comes back a PSA 10 about 4880% 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 68 recorded sales, 48 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.