Air Balloon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £42.85, raw the card sits at £9.74 — 4.4× as much. Of 601 copies already graded, 68 % received a 10 and 26 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £38.12 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 19 auctions the median was £6.32, across 67 fixed-price sales £11.78. Fixed price therefore fetched about 86 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £9.07 and £13.17, with a median of £11.08. 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 £6.90. Offers well below £4.14 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 £12.91 (11), English £9.63 (110). Italian fetches about 34 % 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.