Onix

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £316.71, raw the card sits at £36.90 — 8,6× as much. Of 1.222 copies already graded, 24 % received a 10 and 40 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £142.38 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 38 auctions the median was £28.30, across 123 fixed-price sales £32.97. Fixed price therefore fetched about 16 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £21.55 and £35.64, with a median of £29.22. 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 £15.79. Offers well below £9.47 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 £39.35 (135), Japanese £14.17 (12). English fetches about 178 % 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.