Is it worth grading Team Rocket's Moltres ex - 229/182?

SV10: Destined Rivals · 229/182

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$103.98TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$335.0041 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$95.9527 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$206after $25 fee

A raw Team Rocket's Moltres ex - 229/182 from SV10: Destined Rivals currently sells for about $103.98. Across 41 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $335.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $206.02. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $95.95 across 27 sales — which works out to −$33.03 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$335.0041 sales
CGC10P$457.508 sales
CGC10$163.509 sales
BGS10$625.008 sales
TAG10$345.008 sales
ACE10$191.408 sales
GRADE9.5$153.2510 sales
GRADE9$95.9527 sales
GRADE8$102.5011 sales
GRADE7$90.009 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.