Claydol

What moves the price of this card

The Claydol on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Great Encounters, and it trades at $6.10£4.61€5.52 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 9 $27.49£20.78€24.87, CGC/BGS 9.5 $30£22.68€27.14, PSA 10 $1,229£929.51€1,112. PSA has graded 329 copies of it. 270 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Claydol worth?

A PSA 10 Claydol from Great Encounters sells for $1,229. 55.0% 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 Claydol from Great Encounters worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $687.44 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $5.13 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $582.32.

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 $1,229£929.51€1,112. 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.