How in the world is this a PSA 9?
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Looks OC as all heck...front and back.
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The back likely wouldn't have came into play since it meets the criteria of 90-10, but the front oc and tilt should have probably placed this at an 8. If I were to give the card credit, the surface appears to be very high grade. The 9 is a gift.
Centering requirements for PSA 9 are "approximately 60/40 to 65/35" on the front. This card seems right in that vicinity. I think because so many people on this forum value centering above all else it gets forgotten that perfect centering is not a requirement for the highest grades. Obviously a perfectly centered 9 is more desirable and would command more money, but this card doesn't appear to be improperly graded.
So many 86 Fleer cards look like this in 9. Not only the Jordan. So tough for some cards to find centered top to bottom or left to right. Creates premiums for some issues perfectly centered. Even some 10's are not nearly perfectly centered.
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younger cert # when so much emphasis wasnt placed on being "dead centered" perhaps?
agree on the gifted grade.
Guys, if you think a PSA 9 should be dead centered, then lobby for PSA to change their centering requirements. As their grading standard now stands the card is not improperly graded.
Is this a gift grade also? No, it's a mint card that has 60/40 centering and so is on the outer end of the centering requirement, as some cards will always have to be.
It looks like any number(hundreds, thousands) of 1986 Fleer PSA 9's I've seen. MJ, Drexler, Malone, Wilkins, Ewing, Mullin, Chambers etc, etc. All have many PSA 9's "OC" like that one. The Malone, Worthy and Nique rookies, maybe Magic Johnson from that issue are the ones that stick out to me as not being 50/50, even in PSA 10 in many cases. Centering is but one factor.