CORRECTION, September 8, 2026: The $12,050 winning bid described below did not result in a completed sale. The buyer did not pay, and the seller has relisted the same graded card at $10,000 with Best Offer. eBay’s sold-listing page for the original auction still permanently displays it as SOLD at $12,050 and gives no indication the transaction fell through – which is itself the point of this update: an auction’s SOLD status on eBay does not guarantee the buyer paid. PalCollector’s dataset and this article have been corrected below; the original analysis is preserved with strikethrough-equivalent context rather than deleted, consistent with our standard of keeping corrections part of the record.
On September 3, a PSA 10 Gold Soul Cattiva sold on eBay for $12,050 after 70 bids. It’s the single highest verified sale in PalCollector’s Dawn of Palpagos dataset, more than three times the next-highest recorded sale of any card in the set. The number invites an obvious follow-up question: how rare is this card actually, in graded gem-mint condition?
A PSA 10 is the top of PSA’s 10-point grading scale: gem mint, meaning the card shows no visible flaws even under close inspection – sharp corners, perfect centering, no surface wear. It’s the grade every submitter hopes for and the one that commands the largest premium over a raw copy, often by a wide multiple rather than a small percentage.
The natural next step is to check a population report – the running tally grading companies keep of how many copies of a given card have ever been submitted and graded, broken down by grade. PriceCharting maintains a combined PSA and CGC population tracker for Dawn of Palpagos. As of this writing, Gold Soul Cattiva’s entry on that tracker shows no logged population at any grade, from 6 through 10.
That’s not necessarily a contradiction, though it turned out to be a more complicated one than we first thought. Population reports are built from submissions that grading companies have processed and logged, and there’s a real lag between a card being graded and a third-party tracker reflecting it, especially for a set that’s only six weeks old. The graded copy itself is real and does exist; what changed is that its September 3 auction win, which we treated as a completed verified sale, turned out not to have been paid for. That doesn’t resolve the population question either way – it just means this specific data point can no longer anchor a scarcity claim the way we originally used it.
That absence is itself useful information for collectors, though. It means anyone chasing this specific card in PSA 10 is operating without a reliable public count to anchor expectations – not “there are exactly nine copies,” but “nobody has published a number yet, so the honest scarcity signal is how rarely this card surfaces for sale at all.” Across PalCollector’s full verified-sales window, the English Gold Soul Cattiva changed hands 46 times as raw copies between July 30 and September 6. The one graded copy that appeared, the PSA 10 discussed above, is now excluded from that count because its auction win was never paid for – it remains the only known PSA 10 to surface publicly, just not yet as a completed sale.
That last point is worth sitting with. Forty-six raw copies changed hands in the same window a single graded copy generated a 70-bid, $12,050 auction that then collapsed at the finish line. Whether that gap between raw and graded demand holds up once a real paid graded sale gets recorded is exactly the kind of thing a population report, or a completed transaction, would normally answer – and exactly why PalCollector will keep checking back on this one specifically as the set matures.