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Piplup — Phantasmal Flames #98, PSA 9

Illustration RarePhantasmal Flames098/0942025PSA 9

Piplup 98/94 · Phantasmal Flames PSA 9 price

PSA 9 · mint slab

$25

Fair buy $24 · sell $331.9× rawUpdated

Grade vs rawFull ladder →

  • Raw NM$13
  • PSA 9this page$251.9×
  • PSA 10$1037.8×
PSA 9 sales
29
6 cert-verified
Last 90 days
23
sells regularly
Confidence
High
23 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
one every ~1d
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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.

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

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Why $25? 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
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#152553304$23
2026-09-26eBay · bestofferlisting#161780317$27
2026-09-26eBay · auctionlisting#167843632$23
2026-09-25eBay · fixedpricelisting#154403842$27
2026-09-25eBay · fixedpricelisting#153168299$34
2026-09-25eBay · auctionlisting#154645538$21

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

PSA 9 price history

Monthly medians of cert-verified PSA 9 sales — 615 sales across 11 months, Nov 2025 to Sep 2026.

PSA 9 · index · latest

$25▼ 55%over 337 days

2025-11-01 → 2026-10-04

$30
$40
$50
$60
1 NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSept4 Oct
The recorded PSA 9 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 $24 (Sep 2026, 59 sales) · ▼ 54% since Nov 2025

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

10 slabs have sold more than once, across 10 resales — typically 68 days apart, with a median gross price change of -0.8%. That is 10 of the 591 distinct slabs behind 615 cert-linked sales at this grade — 1.7%. The rest we have seen sell once, which is not evidence they have not sold before.

CertSales of this slabBetweenGross change
#142499915Apr 2026 $22→Sept 2026 $203–6 months-11.4%
#143092089May 2026 $30→Aug 2026 $25Under 3 months-16.7%
#155924483Jun 2026 $28→Jul 2026 $25Under 3 months-10.7%
#144378472May 2026 $25→Jul 2026 $25Under 3 months-0.8%
#139865186May 2026 $30→Jul 2026 $30Under 3 months+0.0%
#150627277Apr 2026 $29→Jun 2026 $45Under 3 months+55.2%
#140949474Mar 2026 $40→Jun 2026 $303–6 months-25.0%
#146018542Apr 2026 $25→Jun 2026 $30Under 3 months+22.2%
#144951674Apr 2026 $35→May 2026 $30Under 3 months-14.3%
#143655283Apr 2026 $30→May 2026 $30Under 3 months+0.0%

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 9 sale we can show you

Cert-verified sales, the eBay comps, our own ledger and Fanatics, in one list newest first. We hold 29 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: 13 PSA 9 sales, 10 in the last 90 days.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2025 POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES ILLUSTRATION RARE #098 PIPLUP PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-10-02—$29.40
2025 POKEMON PFL EN-PHANTASMAL FLAMES ILLUSTRATION RARE #098 PIPLUP PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$24.00
Piplup 098/094 Illustration Rare Pfl En-Phantasmal Flames Pokemon PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-29—$29.59
Pokemon TCG Piplup 098/094 Me02 Phantasmal Flames Holo Illustration Rare PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-09-28—$27.99
2025 Pokemon Mega Evolution Phantasmal Flames IR Piplup #98 PSA 9 MINTPSA 9Fanatics2026-09-26—$25.00
PSA 9 2025 Pokemon TCG Me02: Phantasmal Flames Piplup 098/094 IR Holo ENPSA 9eBay2026-09-26—$27.50
2025 Pokémon Phantasmal Flames Piplup 98/94 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-09-26167843632$22.50
2025 Pokémon Phantasmal Flames Piplup 98/94 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-09-26161780317$26.99

1–8 of 20 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

7,650

39.2% of 19,509 graded

Graded higher

9,841

PSA 10s above this grade

Total PSA graded

19,509

every grade, all time

Other graders at a 9: TAG 424 of 967. 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

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-32

after fees, all grades

Comes back PSA 9

4010%

of submissions, by the census

PSA 9 outcome

$-69

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 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 9 market value USD $25, from 6 cert-verified sales. Source: CardTrack, https://cardtrack.com/pokemon/card/phantasmal-flames/piplup-98/psa-9

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a PSA 9 Piplup (Phantasmal Flames #98) worth?

As of 4 October 2026, a PSA 9 mint Piplup from Phantasmal Flames is worth approximately $25, with a fair range of $24 to $33 — about 1.9× the $13 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 — 2 at auction, 2 by best offer and 2 at a fixed price. A PSA 9 copy trades roughly every 1 days.

How many PSA 9 Piplup exist?

PSA has graded 7,650 copies of Piplup (Phantasmal Flames #98) a 9, out of 19,509 submitted — 39.2% of the population, with 9,841 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 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 9 about 4010% 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 29 recorded sales, 23 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.