Alolan Persian GX (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Alolan Persian GX (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM - Cosmic Eclipse, and it trades at $13.77£10.36€12.13 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 8 $14.52£10.93€12.79, PSA 9 $21.40£16.11€18.85, CGC/BGS 9.5 $24£18.06€21.14, PSA 10 $119.93£90.26€105.62. PSA has graded 277 copies of it. 235 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Alolan Persian GX (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Alolan Persian GX (Secret) from SM - Cosmic Eclipse sells for $119.93. 53.2% 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 Persian GX (Secret) from SM - Cosmic Eclipse worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $72.72 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $13.83 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $41.10.

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 $119.93£90.26€105.62. 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.