Pikachu

What moves the price of this card

The Pikachu on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $32.10£24.16€28.27 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 $44.95£33.83€39.59, PSA 8 $66.76£50.25€58.79, PSA 9 $103.49£77.89€91.14, CGC/BGS 9.5 $114£85.80€100.40, PSA 10 $259.75£195.50€228.75. PSA has graded 364 copies of it. 209 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Pikachu worth?

A PSA 10 Pikachu from SM Promos sells for $259.75. 8.0% 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 Pikachu from SM Promos worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $95.38 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $29.36 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $33.97.

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 $259.75£195.50€228.75. 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.