Gym Badge (Brock)

What moves the price of this card

The Gym Badge (Brock) on this page is the Holofoil printing from XY Promos, and it trades at $20.47£15.41€18.03 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 $19£14.30€16.73, PSA 8 $23.25£17.50€20.48, PSA 9 $54.75£41.21€48.22, CGC/BGS 9.5 $60£45.16€52.84, PSA 10 $184.88£139.15€162.82. PSA has graded 276 copies of it. 103 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Gym Badge (Brock) worth?

A PSA 10 Gym Badge (Brock) from XY Promos sells for $184.88. 3.6% 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 Gym Badge (Brock) from XY Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $42.61 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $20.73 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $78.11.

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 $184.88£139.15€162.82. 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.