Swampert

What moves the price of this card

The Swampert on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from Great Encounters, and it trades at $84.24£63.69€76.22 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 $59.99£45.36€54.28, PSA 8 $155.76£117.76€140.93, PSA 9 $171£129.29€154.72, CGC/BGS 9.5 $188£142.14€170.10, PSA 10 $1,341£1,014€1,214. PSA has graded 369 copies of it. 638 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Swampert worth?

A PSA 10 Swampert from Great Encounters sells for $1,341. 18.8% 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 Swampert from Great Encounters worth grading?

On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $368.98 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $16.81 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it clears $252.18.

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 $1,341£1,014€1,214. 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.