Pidgey

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £164.13, raw the card sits at £11.26 — 14,6× as much. Of 6.263 copies already graded, 25 % received a 10 and 53 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £57.30 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 189 auctions the median was £11.16, across 662 fixed-price sales £14.13. Fixed price therefore fetched about 27 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £10.97 and £15.30, with a median of £12.75. 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 £8.50. Offers well below £5.10 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: English £11.21 (845), German £8.93 (140), Italian £7.60 (28). English fetches about 79 % 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.