Terapagos ex

What moves the price of this card

The Terapagos ex on this page is the Holofoil printing from Japanese Stellar Miracle, and it trades at $2.75£2.06€2.40 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 8 $10.57£7.92€9.22, PSA 9 $15.86£11.89€13.84, CGC/BGS 9.5 $17£12.74€14.83, PSA 10 $40£29.98€34.90. PSA has graded 539 copies of it. 233 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Terapagos ex worth?

A PSA 10 Terapagos ex from Japanese Stellar Miracle sells for $40. 89.3% 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 Terapagos ex from Japanese Stellar Miracle worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $37.20 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $3.64 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $66.43.

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 $40£29.98€34.90. 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.