Alolan Meowth

What moves the price of this card

The Alolan Meowth on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $1.92£1.45€1.69 in near mint condition. Only one printing of this card was produced, so there is no cheaper version to confuse it with.

Graded, it runs PSA 7 $16.50£12.42€14.53, PSA 8 $26£19.57€22.90, PSA 9 $29£21.83€25.54, CGC/BGS 9.5 $32£24.08€28.18, PSA 10 $44.90£33.79€39.54. PSA has graded 92 copies of it. 180 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Alolan Meowth worth?

A PSA 10 Alolan Meowth from SM Promos sells for $44.90. 3.3% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.

Is Alolan Meowth from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $21.10 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $2.25 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $81.14.

Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $44.90£33.79€39.54. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.