+1000
Ryan is absolutely correct!
PSA doesn't do a good job of correctly maintaining their database.
Especially when it comes to Piedmont, Piedmont 150 and Piedmont 350 backs
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Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss
The piedmont 350 back distinction is total bullshit outside the elite 11, and Matty Dark cap is not one of the elite 11. Find one of the many Ted Z threads (miss you Ted) on this subject- there are 11 cards that exist but are rarely found with a piedmont 350 back. For every other subject, the 350 back is very common.
At some point PSA started distinguishing the piedmont 350 from all other piedmont backs, for all t206 subjects in that series. This was a major mistake bc it falsely elevated the non-importance of that back in all cases except 11. VCP exacerbated the issue by starting to list 350 sales apart from others (I emailed Bobby about this and I got an unnecessarily snarky response, but I believe he has since, correctly, changed it in VCP). Now, auction houses perpetuate the misconception of rarity.
A TON of t206s were graded before PSA even distinguished backs. Many tons more were graded before PSA listed 350 as a separate category of piedmonts. Thus, the PSA pop report on that is flat out, completely wrong. Your Matty Dark cap (very very nice example BTW) may indeed be one of the highest on PSA’s misleading pop report, but I will bet dollars to dimes that there are many t206 matty dark cap piedmont 350s graded higher than yours.
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