Detective Pikachu

What moves the price of this card

The Detective Pikachu on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $41£30.86€36.11 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 $31.95£24.05€28.14, PSA 9 $70£52.69€61.65, CGC/BGS 9.5 $77£57.95€67.81, PSA 10 $2,368£1,782€2,085. PSA has graded 475 copies of it. 81 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Detective Pikachu worth?

A PSA 10 Detective Pikachu from SM Promos sells for $2,368. 17.1% 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 Detective Pikachu from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $447.11 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $35.69 for a raw copy plus $169 to send it through PSA Express, so it clears $242.42.

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 $2,368£1,782€2,085. 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.