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A PSA 10 currently sells for about £74.27, raw the card sits at £1.16 — 63,8× as much. Of 1.682 copies already graded, 14 % received a 10 and 24 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £45.39 on average, before fees and shipping. Rule of thumb: submit when the value at a realistic grade is at least double the raw value — which is the case here. Centering decides it: an off-centre card will not get a 10. The grade distribution comes from the PSA Population Report; people pre-sort before submitting, so your own hit rate may differ.

Across 19 auctions the median was £0.85, across 24 fixed-price sales £1.73. Fixed price therefore fetched about 104 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £0.85 and £1.95, with a median of £1.28. Selling fast lands you nearer the lower end; with patience, good photos and a complete title the upper end is achievable.

The cheapest genuine sales were around £0.82. Offers well below £0.49 are typically fakes, mislabelled cards or a different variant — ask for photos of all four borders and a close-up of the surface.

From real sales: Japanese £2.39 (12), English £1.16 (43), German £0.85 (29). Japanese fetches about 181 % more.

lastsold uses only real sales — eBay plus auction houses like Goldin & Fanatics — recent sales count more (recency weighting), outliers and fakes are removed. It's not an estimate but actual sold prices, separated by condition, language and grading.