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T206Collector...subjective assessments (i.e., beauty, presentation, aura) and more objective assessments (i.e., 2 spider wrinkles, glue, paper loss, centering, corner damage). Otherwise you lose the value of the grade.
Again, the whole purpose of grading is to let people on both sides of a transaction know what they are getting in terms of condition. It is up to the sellers and buyers to assign monetary values to the card, relying on both subjective and objective criteria. Not all SGC 30's will look the same; and for that reason not all SGC 30's will be priced the same. But that is a function of the marketplace, not solely the objective grade. It is a complex way of saying, don't just buy the holder.