The Grading Threshold: Which Cards Jump Most in Value From 9 to 10
Trophy and tournament cards see the most dramatic value jumps from PSA 9 to PSA 10, routinely commanding premiums of ten times or more, but they are far...
Category Holographic Cards
Holo, reverse holo, and special foil cards
The PSA Pop Report: How to Use It to Find Undervalued Cards
The PSA Pop Report is a free, publicly accessible database that tells you exactly how many copies of a given card PSA has graded and at what grade levels.
How to Submit Cards to PSA for the First Time — Step by Step
Submitting cards to PSA for the first time comes down to seven steps: inspect your cards, sleeve them in Card Saver 1 semi-rigid holders, create an...
This Grandma Found 1st Edition Cards in the Attic — Here’s What They Were Worth
When a man posted photos of two sealed Base Set blister packs he found in his grandmother's attic to the Reddit forum r/PokemonTCG, the collecting world...
Attic Find Pokémon Cards: Real Values vs. What People Think They Have
Most Pokémon cards found in attics, basements, and childhood closets are worth very little. That shoebox of cards from the late 1990s or early 2000s that...
How to Know If Your Old Pokémon Cards Are Worth Money
You can tell if your old Pokémon cards are worth money by checking for a few specific markers: a 1st Edition stamp, the absence of a shadow border on the...
Why Pokémon Cards Spiked During COVID and What Happened After
Pokémon cards spiked during COVID because a perfect storm of lockdown boredom, government stimulus checks, millennial nostalgia, and social media hype...
Trophymon Cards: What They Are and Why They’re Worth Hundreds of Thousands
"Trophymon Cards" as a standalone collectible card product do not exist. If you landed on this article searching for that term, you were likely looking...
The 10 Most Expensive Pokémon Cards Ever Sold at Auction
The most expensive Pokémon card ever sold at auction is the Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10, which fetched a staggering $16,492,000 at Goldin Auctions in...
The Last Time Pokémon Cards Were This Expensive Was 2021 — What’s Different Now
Pokémon card prices are surging again, and for collectors who lived through the pandemic-era boom, the sticker shock feels eerily familiar.