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$285.0014 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$39.5024 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$238after $25 fee

A raw Articuno - 161/159 from SV09: Journey Together currently sells for about $21.50. Across 14 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $285.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $238.50. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $39.50 across 24 sales — which works out to −$7.00 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$285.0014 sales
CGC10P$285.5011 sales
CGC10$99.9910 sales
TAG10$285.008 sales
ACE10$121.798 sales
GRADE9.5$32.007 sales
GRADE9$39.5024 sales
GRADE8$22.5011 sales
GRADE7$22.129 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.