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1981 Topps Scratch Offs. What's going on here?

DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭
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I'm not sure when PSA decided that 81 Scratch-Offs could be completely scratched off and still receive high grades, but IMO it doesn't look very good that 4SC is the beneficiary of this decision.
Carter PSA 9
Molitor PSA 9
,, and there are others.

As most player collectors will tell you that Scratch Offs are some of the more difficult 80's odd-ball cards to find in high grade. Most of the difficulty is finding copies that don't have marks or chunks taken out of the scratchable portion of the card. Allowing a card to be modified from it's original form, slabbing it, and not placing a notation on the flip is bad for business IMO.

Here's what they should look like.

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"The Sipe market is ridiculous right now"
CDsNuts, 1/9/15

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  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭
    That is quite strange. I can see a player/set collector wanting one of each version (unscratched/scratched), but the scratched should not be graded just as the unscratched, that's for sure.

    Edit - How is my post first???
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  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Edit - How is my post first??? >>



    Glitch in the matrix?
    "The Sipe market is ridiculous right now"
    CDsNuts, 1/9/15
  • mariotownmariotown Posts: 509 ✭✭
    It looks like a mistake on PSA's part. Those cards look like they never have the coating applied to begin with which would make them ungradeable in my opinion or at least gradeable with a message like "PROOF" added.

    Kevin
    I collect PSA cards of the following:
    Billy Ripken
    Cal Ripken, Jr. 1980-2002
    Cal Ripken, Sr.
    Hall of Fame Rookies
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Edit - How is my post first??? >>



    Don't you remember buying a time machine from me in 2015?
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Edit - How is my post first??? >>



    Don't you remember buying a time machine from me in 2015? >>



    Ah yes. Now I remember posting this thread in 2015, using said time machine, back before I posted my initial response, so I could respond to myself now. Must have skipped my mind. lol
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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It looks like a mistake on PSA's part. Those cards look like they never have the coating applied to begin with which would make them ungradeable in my opinion or at least gradeable with a message like "PROOF" added.

    Kevin >>



    Agreed.


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It looks like a mistake on PSA's part. Those cards look like they never have the coating applied to begin with which would make them ungradeable in my opinion or at least gradeable with a message like "PROOF" added.

    Kevin >>



    I think you are right about the coating not ever being on the 4SC examples. I took a couple of extras that I had sitting around and tried to get the coating off cleanly. Unless they had a solution that dissolved it, I don't think it's possible to get it off clean.

    Good call Kevin.

    Another uneducated grader I guess.
    "The Sipe market is ridiculous right now"
    CDsNuts, 1/9/15
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    I've seen a few examples without the scratch-off over the years. Not unusual although I agree that there should be a notation for "Scratched" and "Unscratched." Not sure if they still do this for the 1980-81 Topps hockey or not, but they used to (also the same for Refractors with and without "film").
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