Noctowl

What moves the price of this card

The Noctowl on this page is the Holofoil printing from HGSS Promos, and it trades at $12.26£9.23€10.80 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 $13.99£10.53€12.32, PSA 8 $38.50£28.98€33.91, PSA 9 $61£45.91€53.72, CGC/BGS 9.5 $67£50.43€59, PSA 10 $766£576.53€674.59. PSA has graded 75 copies of it. 128 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Noctowl worth?

A PSA 10 Noctowl from HGSS Promos sells for $766. 2.7% 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 Noctowl from HGSS Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $52.33 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $7.88 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $55.54.

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 $766£576.53€674.59. 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.