Galarian Articuno (Prerelease)

What moves the price of this card

The Galarian Articuno (Prerelease) on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $10.47£7.88€9.22 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 $14.99£11.28€13.20, PSA 9 $33.93£25.54€29.88, CGC/BGS 9.5 $37£27.85€32.58, PSA 10 $288.22£216.93€253.83. PSA has graded 442 copies of it. 236 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Galarian Articuno (Prerelease) worth?

A PSA 10 Galarian Articuno (Prerelease) from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $288.22. 32.1% 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 Galarian Articuno (Prerelease) from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $112.81 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $10.71 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $2.11.

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 $288.22£216.93€253.83. 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.