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Posted By: cmoking

Here are four cards - PSA 8 through 5. I think these are good representative corners for these grades. The differences between one grade and another is minute, but as you slowly go up (or down) the grading curve, it becomes fairly transparent why one is graded higher or lower than another. Of course, they aren't as consistent as they should be or I would hope they'd be (speaking of PSA), that's why cards get re-submitted. After a year or so handling tons of these Goudeys in holders and ungraded, I am finally getting to understand the differences. Now if I can only figure out the trimming issues!



Jay, after downloading the image of your card, and looking at blown up images of the corners, it does look like SGC 86 is the right grade. Better than the average PSA 7, but not quite PSA 8. But that's from a scan only, in person it could be better/worse. By the way, how do you post an image with such high clarity? I can only post images of less than 100KB.