Is it worth grading Pikachu - 214 (Illustration Contest 2024)?

SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards · 214

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$16.74TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$279.9919 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$33.0023 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$238after $25 fee

A raw Pikachu - 214 (Illustration Contest 2024) from SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards currently sells for about $16.74. Across 19 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $279.99. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $238.25. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $33.00 across 23 sales — which works out to −$8.74 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$279.9919 sales
CGC10P$137.5018 sales
CGC10$41.5022 sales
TAG10$160.9314 sales
ACE10$93.008 sales
GRADE9.5$25.0012 sales
GRADE9$33.0023 sales
GRADE8$23.2510 sales
GRADE7$21.405 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.