Cloyster

What moves the price of this card

The Cloyster on this page is the 1st Edition Holofoil printing from Japanese Base Expansion Pack, and it trades at $82£61.14€73.35 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 $20.80£15.51€18.61, PSA 9 $49.94£37.24€44.67, CGC/BGS 9.5 $55£41.01€49.20, PSA 10 $219.88£163.96€196.69. PSA has graded 845 copies of it. 508 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Cloyster worth?

A PSA 10 Cloyster from Japanese Base Expansion Pack sells for $219.88. 50.9% 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 Cloyster from Japanese Base Expansion Pack worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $131.83 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $35.74 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $3.90.

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 $219.88£163.96€196.69. 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.