Sticking with coins
lusterlover
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After 40 years of coin collecting, I know my way around grading Lincoln cents. I am admittedly a covid card collector, but my recent experience has been quite humbling.....
Like many during covid, I dug my old cards out of the back of the closet. Mostly BB & FB from the mid-70's and mostly $25-$200 cards. Given that, I decided to wait until the tier pricing came back to reality, so I finally submitted this year. First batch was the rookie & HOF cards, regardless of grade, figuring that was the easy value---got hammered with mostly 4s, 5s & 6s. Decided to take this seriously and spent weeks going through hundreds/thousands of cards picking out the best ones and whittling down to 20. I looked for centering, corners, clean edges, etc.
Just got back the 20 and was once again mostly disappointed with several head-scratchers. Please help me out with these.
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/2819
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Luzinski looks like 7 at best to me. The Washington looks better than the grade presents like 7 or 8, perhaps wrinkles?
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Stain on back of Claudell above 647 toward the edge?
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That sure is a nice PSA 3 Washington card! But you also have evidence of wear on the top two corners and surfaces and registration that are less than ideal so at best, I'd expect a 5 or 6 going in unless there's a wrinkle somewhere.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
The Claudell, it's the surface wear. Looks like loss of color and gloss.
Obvious front and back centering slightly off for both cards. The 3, based on the pictures, blows my mind.
It also appears there is a stain on the "or" of "major" on the back of Luzinski.
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