Latias

What moves the price of this card

The Latias on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $12.64£9.51€11.13 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 $42.45£31.95€37.38, PSA 8 $58.01£43.66€51.09, PSA 9 $169.18£127.33€148.99, CGC/BGS 9.5 $186£139.99€163.80, PSA 10 $285£214.50€250.99. PSA has graded 149 copies of it. 164 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Latias worth?

A PSA 10 Latias from SM Promos sells for $285. 6.7% 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 Latias from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $89.93 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $8.65 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $18.71.

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 $285£214.50€250.99. 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.