Lugia

What moves the price of this card

The Lugia on this page is the 1st Edition Holofoil printing from Japanese Awakening Psychic King, and it trades at $28.16£20.86€24.99 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 $55.04£40.77€48.85, PSA 9 $124.25£92.04€110.28, CGC/BGS 9.5 $137£101.48€121.59, PSA 10 $407.09£301.55€361.31. PSA has graded 597 copies of it. 383 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Lugia worth?

A PSA 10 Lugia from Japanese Awakening Psychic King sells for $407.09. 74.1% 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 Lugia from Japanese Awakening Psychic King worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $329.42 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $24.48 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $204.95.

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 $407.09£301.55€361.31. 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.