Arcanine ex

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £116.34, raw the card sits at £10.04 — 11.6× as much. Of 3.511 copies already graded, 40 % received a 10 and 46 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £62.00 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 136 auctions the median was £9.12, across 388 fixed-price sales £11.63. 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 £8.80 and £12.95, with a median of £10.85. 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 £7.11. Offers well below £4.27 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 £13.56 (13), French £13.22 (16), English £10.04 (529). Italian fetches about 63 % 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.