Salamence

What moves the price of this card

The Salamence on this page is the Holofoil printing from Dragon Vault, and it trades at $6.32£4.76€5.57 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 $32.12£24.18€28.29, PSA 8 $94.46£71.09€83.19, PSA 9 $104£78.28€91.59, CGC/BGS 9.5 $114£85.80€100.40, PSA 10 $1,198£901.45€1,055. PSA has graded 108 copies of it. 135 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Salamence worth?

A PSA 10 Salamence from Dragon Vault sells for $1,198. 4.6% 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 Salamence from Dragon Vault worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $142.92 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $6.51 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $36.42.

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 $1,198£901.45€1,055. 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.