Altaria

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £256.24, raw the card sits at £10.44 — 24,5× as much. Of 1.725 copies already graded, 33 % received a 10 and 48 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £96.91 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 93 auctions the median was £8.50, across 470 fixed-price sales £10.31. Fixed price therefore fetched about 21 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £7.96 and £11.64, with a median of £9.88. 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 £5.54. Offers well below £3.32 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 £9.32 (25), English £9.31 (676), German £7.62 (31). Italian fetches about 99 % 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.