Pikachu

What moves the price of this card

The Pikachu on this page is the Holofoil printing from SM Promos, and it trades at $31.13£23.43€27.42 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 $28.35£21.34€24.97, PSA 8 $47.58£35.81€41.90, PSA 9 $156.10£117.49€137.47, CGC/BGS 9.5 $172£129.46€151.48, PSA 10 $2,191£1,649€1,929. PSA has graded 680 copies of it. 247 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Pikachu worth?

A PSA 10 Pikachu from SM Promos sells for $2,191. 15.4% 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, yes. The average submission is worth $416.29 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $25.63 for a raw copy plus $169 to send it through PSA Express, so it clears $221.66.

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 $2,191£1,649€1,929. 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.