Espeon

What moves the price of this card

The Espeon on this page is the Holofoil printing from Black and White Promos, and it trades at $100.32£75.51€88.35 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 7 $84.50£63.60€74.42, PSA 8 $145£109.13€127.70, PSA 9 $489.55£368.46€431.13, CGC/BGS 9.5 $539£405.68€474.68, PSA 10 $2,831£2,131€2,494. PSA has graded 1,293 copies of it. 131 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Espeon worth?

A PSA 10 Espeon from Black and White Promos sells for $2,831. 0.9% 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 Espeon from Black and White Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $186.54 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $59.37 for a raw copy plus $369 to send it through PSA Super Express, so it loses $241.83.

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 $2,831£2,131€2,494. 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.