Old vs. new grading
wojohoit
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Does PSA grade tougher now vs. 10 years ago.
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wojohoit
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<< <i>TEA..........that's a toss up. There is the new half point grading scale. However, centering seems to be inconsistent with the two big grading companies. >>
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Who knows?? chaz
WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
It's not that they grade tougher, it's just that they have more categories now, so it should be tougher for a card to fit into a higher category than before.
Adding the half-grades, it not only recognizes cards that are "nice for the grade" as originally intended, for instance moving "really nice 8s" to 8.5 - it also brings down what would have been borderline 9s into 8.5 holders. I see many borderline 9s in old holders and I think today they'd likely get 8.5
That's not to say there aren't really nice undergraded cards in old holders, there obviously are. And obviously there are still overgraded examples post-switch.
But today's 9s seem a little more 9-worthy. My opinion, of course.