Bronzong (Secret)

What moves the price of this card

The Bronzong (Secret) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Chilling Reign, and it trades at $5.59£4.23€5.06 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 $12.39£9.37€11.21, PSA 9 $16.87£12.75€15.26, CGC/BGS 9.5 $17£12.85€15.38, PSA 10 $66.07£49.95€59.78. PSA has graded 303 copies of it. 296 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Bronzong (Secret) worth?

A PSA 10 Bronzong (Secret) from Chilling Reign sells for $66.07. 67.8% 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 Bronzong (Secret) from Chilling Reign worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $49.67 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $6 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $56.32.

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 $66.07£49.95€59.78. 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.