Pidove

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £443.56, raw the card sits at £23.85 — 18,6× as much. Of 552 copies already graded, 24 % received a 10 and 55 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £132.31 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 82 auctions the median was £14.79, across 299 fixed-price sales £22.46. Fixed price therefore fetched about 52 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £14.50 and £26.06, with a median of £20.46. 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 £11.83. Offers well below £7.10 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: Italian £26.41 (22), English £23.68 (416), German £20.40 (17). Italian fetches about 114 % 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.