Larvitar

What moves the price of this card

The Larvitar on this page is the 1st Edition printing from Japanese Base Expansion Pack, and it trades at $5.44£4.03€4.83 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 $12.18£9.02€10.81, PSA 9 $22.49£16.66€19.96, CGC/BGS 9.5 $25£18.52€22.19, PSA 10 $250£185.19€221.89. PSA has graded 357 copies of it. 193 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Larvitar worth?

A PSA 10 Larvitar from Japanese Base Expansion Pack sells for $250. 46.5% 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 Larvitar from Japanese Base Expansion Pack worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $123.87 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $7.25 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $16.63.

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 $250£185.19€221.89. 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.