2025 Topps Chrome Platinum Base Set Lou Gehrig Blue Shimmer Refractor #490

2025 Topps Chrome Platinum Base Set Lou Gehrig Blue Shimmer Refractor #490 value & prices

The 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum Base Set Lou Gehrig Blue Shimmer Refractor #490 is a Baseball card (Blue Shimmer Refractor parallel) released in 2025. Ungraded copies carry a market value of about $12.50.

An ungraded copy is worth around $12.50, a PSA 9 around $29.60, a PSA 10 (Gem Mint) around $86.38 and a pristine BGS 10 around $112.00. That's roughly a 6.9× premium for a gem-mint copy over raw — one of the clearest signals that condition-sensitive buyers dominate this card's market.

Is it worth grading?

With raw copies near $12.50 and top grades reaching $86.38, grading a sharp copy of this card can clearly pay for itself — the spread comfortably covers a typical ~$25.00 grading fee. The catch: only submit copies with strong centering, clean corners, and unmarked surfaces, because anything below a 9 usually erases the math.