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August Pickups - Sultry Summer Scores?
PaulMaul
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I usually prefer PSA for graded cards, but 1973 is not a registry set for me, as many of my nicest cards are raw. So nothing wrong with an SGC slab when the card is this beautiful….as long as I make sure to keep it in a separate stack. 😂
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Nice start to August!
Wow - that 1973 Buddy Bell card is fantastic! The SGC holder really makes it pop.
Here is my addition for August - the rookie card of 'Stretch' McCovey. I had been looking for a mid grade one that presents well and did not have the stray ink or fish eyes that I've seen on many of them.
@BaltimoreYankee
Nice Stretch!
How do cert numbers work with SGC? Both the McCovey and Bell were graded in the past few months, but have wildly different certs.
No idea about the cert #s. How can you tell when they were graded?
SGC’s cert lookup page has the grading date included.
Found this on Facebook:
I have wondered why SGC doesn't have cert #'s that run continuously upwards as submissions come in similar to PSA. Well, I finally reached out to SGC for the answer to the question.
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The answer that was provided by Brent Martin (SGC): The computer generates a cert # that assigns them at random. The logic behind it is added security to prevent forging new labels and copying.
And no, they cannot manually input a cert # that is vacant currently. It must remain computer generated at random.
Pickups from the National as well as a couple of MBA labeled updates from Chicago.