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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

Is there a way to tell by looking at a slabbed card's label when it was slabbed? Assuming there is, and in recognition of the various expressed opinions that a certain percentage of slabbed cards if resubmited today would come back with either a lower grade or evidence of alteration, do you think that a card slabbed today would have a greater market value than if the slabbing was done say six years ago? While I don't profess to be an expert on slabbing cards, it seems to me that grading standards have gotten stricter over the years, while the awareness of and ability to detect the various methods of alteration has arguably improved. That would make a strong argument that a card's value would be enhanced if it could be shown that the slabbing was done recently. The flip side of the issue would be if the techniques of alteration have now become so advanced that it would actually improve a card's chances of being unaltered if it could be shown it was slabbed at an earlier less technologically-advanced time.