Is it worth grading Articuno - 161/159?

SV09: Journey Together · 161/159

Yes — if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$21.50TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$257.9939 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$37.0055 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$211after $25 fee

A raw Articuno - 161/159 from SV09: Journey Together currently sells for about $21.50. Across 39 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $257.99. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $211.49. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $37.00 across 55 sales — which works out to −$9.50 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$257.9939 sales
CGC10P$299.5013 sales
CGC10$99.9913 sales
TAG10$280.0010 sales
ACE10$121.799 sales
GRADE9.5$32.007 sales
GRADE9$37.0055 sales
GRADE8$21.9420 sales
GRADE7$22.5011 sales
GRADE6$19.003 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.