Venusaur V

What moves the price of this card

The Venusaur V on this page is the Holofoil printing from Sword & Shield Promo Cards, and it trades at $5.69£4.28€5.01 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 $16.95£12.76€14.93, PSA 9 $22£16.56€19.37, CGC/BGS 9.5 $24£18.06€21.14, PSA 10 $54.02£40.66€47.57. PSA has graded 247 copies of it. 110 completed sales are on file.

What is a PSA 10 Venusaur V worth?

A PSA 10 Venusaur V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards sells for $54.02. 48.0% 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 Venusaur V from Sword & Shield Promo Cards worth grading?

On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $36.12 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $4.60 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $68.47.

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 $54.02£40.66€47.57. 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.