Moltres

What moves the price of this card

The Moltres on this page is the Holofoil printing from Majestic Dawn, and it trades at $48.10£36.37€43.52 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.

Graded, it runs PSA 6 $44£33.27€39.81, PSA 7 $45£34.02€40.72, PSA 8 $169.68£128.29€153.53, PSA 9 $1,312£992.10€1,187, CGC/BGS 9.5 $1,443£1,091€1,306, PSA 10 $30,457£23,027€27,558. PSA has graded 360 copies of it. 542 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Moltres worth?

A PSA 10 Moltres from Majestic Dawn sells for $30,457. 5.7% 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 Moltres from Majestic Dawn worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $2,292 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $32.50 for a raw copy plus $2,019 to send it through PSA Premium 2, so it clears $240.98.

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 $30,457£23,027€27,558. 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.