Briar

What moves the price of this card

The Briar on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese Stellar Miracle, and it trades at $8.25£6.15€7.38 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 $10.59£7.90€9.47, PSA 9 $14£10.44€12.52, CGC/BGS 9.5 $33£24.61€29.52, PSA 10 $47.77£35.62€42.73. PSA has graded 932 copies of it. 196 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Briar worth?

A PSA 10 Briar from Japanese Stellar Miracle sells for $47.77. 54.1% 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 Briar from Japanese Stellar Miracle worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $32.02 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $10.50 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $78.47.

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 $47.77£35.62€42.73. 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.