Lacey

What Ace copies sold for in the UK

Completed eBay UK sales, in pounds, where the listing recorded the grader and the grade. The graders are not interchangeable here: across 154 cards with both, an Ace 10 sells for about 60% of a PSA 10, and an Ace 9 for about 80% of a PSA 9. The count beside each price is how many sales it is a median of.

What moves the price of this card

The Lacey on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese Stellar Miracle, and it trades at $3.77£2.83€3.29 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 $9.99£7.49€8.72, PSA 8 $14.75£11.05€12.87, PSA 9 $17.38£13.02€15.17, CGC/BGS 9.5 $19£14.24€16.58, PSA 10 $60£44.96€52.36. PSA has graded 1,885 copies of it. 226 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Lacey worth?

A PSA 10 Lacey from Japanese Stellar Miracle sells for $60. 41.7% 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 Lacey from Japanese Stellar Miracle worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $34.84 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $4.59 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $69.74.

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 $60£44.96€52.36. 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.