Altaria

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £140.69, raw the card sits at £5.43 — 25,9× as much. Of 3.587 copies already graded, 36 % received a 10 and 47 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £62.51 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 99 auctions the median was £4.74, across 342 fixed-price sales £5.24. Fixed price therefore fetched about 10 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £4.42 and £5.94, with a median of £5.09. 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 £3.66. Offers well below £2.20 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: German £8.66 (37), French £5.12 (18), English £3.74 (669). German fetches about 132 % 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.