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T206Collector...in favor of a system of just authenticating and identifying hard-to-see defects. But the flip side to the grading coin is the dealer trying to pass off a VG card as EX just because of slightly rounded corners. A huge plus from grading is taking the dealer's inherently biased description out of the equation. What grading did is basically standardize everyone's concept of VG and EX and Mint.
Whether or not a card registers as blurry is Mint or something else is not really up to the grading company. It is up to the industry. E.g., crease means VG or less is really an industry standard that the grading companies adopted. If we all agreed tomorrow that crease can mean EX, then that is not a grading company issue -- that is an industry issue.
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