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T206Collector<<This just illustrates again the fact that the lower 2 or 3 grades have way too much variety in them.>>
3rd party grading isn't about buying cards blind based on a 10 point numbering system. It's about identifying flaws in cards. When you see a scan like this but SGC says its a 30, it is irrelevant to point out whether you think it should've graded higher -- the relevance of a 30 with a scan like this is that there is something that can't be seen from a scan. That's what grading is all about.
Like I said before, cards can grade SGC 30 for about 1,500 reasons -- as a result no two 30's will look alike. The higher up on the grading scale you go, the more they will look alike. At this scale, the entire useful function of grading is to flag cards with hard to see defects.