Shaquille O’Neal Topps Gold RC

warner85

Hey Guys, looking for some advice on this card. What originally looked to be a hair on the left side of the thick white border is actually a defect. It’s really terrible because otherwise this card is completely flawless. Centering looks perfect front and back, corners and sides looks awesome. Is it worth grading or will too much be deducted for this flaw? I saw a PSA 10 recently go for nearly 4K which got me thinking of grading it. With the flaw it’s not a 10 but what grade do you think I could expect? Hopefully the image posts.. Thanks in advance!

rtimmer

First to answer your question with the flaw it won’t grade well, nice looking card though.

Secondly how can the Shaq topps gold possibly be selling for more than the upper deck 1st pick card? The topps gold has 100 more psa 10’s and a hit rate of 18% versus the 3.5% rate for the upper deck.

mrmopar

Don't all the draft pick cards have gold on them that year? I didn't think that was a parallel, or am I just reading into the "Gold" label too far?

DotStore

@mrmopar said:
Don't all the draft pick cards have gold on them that year? I didn't think that was a parallel, or am I just reading into the "Gold" label too far?

That Shaq rookie has a regular and gold version like the rest of the set.

For the defect above, that print flaw will hurt on grading. Otherwise a nice card

ldferg

You're looking at a 7 with that defect. Otherwise a nice card.

craig44

it is a good card, I would keep it raw though

ReggieCleveland

Dang. $4k? I have a rack with a Shaq Gold showing on the bottom. Might be time to check out completed sales.

Arthur

rtimmer

@ReggieCleveland said:
Dang. $4k? I have a rack with a Shaq Gold showing on the bottom. Might be time to check out completed sales.

Arthur

Tha’s what I was thinking...

warner85

I’ll keep it raw, thanks for the advice guys. Yeah I would check recent sales, going through the roof right now. Good luck!

mrmopar

@DotStore said:

@mrmopar said:
Don't all the draft pick cards have gold on them that year? I didn't think that was a parallel, or am I just reading into the "Gold" label too far?

That Shaq rookie has a regular and gold version like the rest of the set.

For the defect above, that print flaw will hurt on grading. Otherwise a nice card

I was partially right. The 92 Draft part is gold on all the draft cards. The name section is the gold parallel I see. I guess I never bought those and probably didn't realize or had forgotten there was a gold parallel.