Quaxwell

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £70.61, raw the card sits at £7.15 — 9,9× as much. Of 1.416 copies already graded, 18 % received a 10 and 49 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £26.02 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 51 auctions the median was £5.36, across 176 fixed-price sales £7.47. Fixed price therefore fetched about 40 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £5.54 and £8.76, with a median of £7.26. 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 £4.23. Offers well below £2.54 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 £9.36 (11), German £7.65 (27), English £4.87 (354). Italian fetches about 92 % 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.