Slowking

What moves the price of this card

The Slowking on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Great Encounters, and it trades at $23.65£17.80€20.83 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 7 $11£8.28€9.69, PSA 8 $13.50£10.16€11.89, PSA 9 $55£41.40€48.44, CGC/BGS 9.5 $61£45.91€53.72, PSA 10 $1,026£771.88€903.17. PSA has graded 67 copies of it. 253 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Slowking worth?

A PSA 10 Slowking from Great Encounters sells for $1,026. 27.3% 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 Slowking from Great Encounters worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $307.95 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $11.34 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $196.62.

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 $1,026£771.88€903.17. 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.