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Guess the Grade??

christy123christy123 Posts: 8
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  • DaBigHurtDaBigHurt Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    PSA 10.
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  • christy123christy123 Posts: 8
    The first answer got it right. Even with those black smudge marks on the card PSA gave it a 9. I was quite surprised with the grade. Does this fall within the guidelines for a 9? I'm becoming more and more disillusioned with grading lately.
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  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    What a joke.
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  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭
    8. chaz





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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    It's a 9 and within the standards for a 9. 73's are common with the black print lines and PSA historically has made allowances for that. No reason to be disillusioned at all.




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  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's a 9 and within the standards for a 9. 73's are common with the black print lines and PSA historically has made allowances for that. No reason to be disillusioned at all.




    Ron >>





    It's an 8 and I say so. chaz




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  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭
    So is it a 9 or a 10? I would have guessed a 9.
  • envoy98envoy98 Posts: 4,000 ✭✭
    I would have guessed a 9 as well. The top left corner is touched and the print mark on the left border keep it from a 10...I would think.

    I don't do much with baseball but I've got numerous mid-late 70's football with print marks like that sitting in 8 and 9 holders. I don't like them and would rather have one without the marks...and hopefully at some point

    I will. If you really want to be disappointed, take a look at some high grade 71 topps football some time. A lot of them have surface wrinkles on the top or bottom edge from the cutting process. Personally I can't stand that there is an allowance for this as I don't feel it's the same as a rough cut on an OPC hockey card since it impacts the integrity of the surface...but since so many have this flaw an allowance is made for it. Hard to split the hairs I guess, but my personal preference is against that allowance.

    It always has and always will come down to the old addage..."buy the card, not the holder"

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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    It would be worth buying if it was in a 9 holder. I would certainly buy it if it was in an 8 holder, as it would be undergraded.

    The card is perfectly centered, with 3 "9" corners and 1 "8" (really 8.5) corner. The edges are perfect. The surface is at worst an 8. That adds up to a 9, per the grading standards.


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  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It would be worth buying if it was in a 9 holder. I would certainly buy it if it was in an 8 holder, as it would be undergraded.

    The card is perfectly centered, with 3 "9" corners and 1 "8" (really 8.5) corner. The edges are perfect. The surface is at worst an 8. That adds up to a 9, per the grading standards.


    Ron >>




    It's overgraded at a 9. chaz
  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    I was a little confused by your post, christy, which I guess you might've been editing while I was initially responding. So it's not a 10, but a 9? It's not quite as horrific in a mint holder as opposed to a gem mint one, but this is still one wildly unappealing card. Oh well, collect the cert numbers, not the cardboard.
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