Does anything look suspicious about this PSA graded ‘56 Clemente

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Looks bad to me.
Appears to be frosting on the whole left side.
The bottom left looks tampered with, see scratch/crack
As for the card....looks not to be graded a 4...the corners look to roughed-up.

May be the case, the card doesn't scream fake to me, and it seems like an awful lot of work/risk to swap a PSA 4 card out for what I'm assuming you think should be a 2. I just don't see a huge incentive to make the risk worthwhile...

[Empty77]

I agree it is so not worth the effort for anyone to spend their time trying to scam that, but those top corners are wickedly ugly. I just glanced through half dozen other fours on the web and the difference is night/day for just sometimes $20 more. My guess is you would regret that card. Cards at that grade level are not scarce. In this situation patience is your friend (and I know b/c I've fought that advice enough myself to have more regrets than I would prefer)

[JollyElm]

Whether there's tomfoolery involved or the card was graded earlier on when PSA was (possibly?) less stringent with their grading parameters, I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who believes that if it was graded today, the Clemente would still receive a 4. Like Empty said, I would be patient until a better one comes along.

[irv]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Whether there's tomfoolery involved or the card was graded earlier on when PSA was (possibly?) less stringent with their grading parameters, I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who believes that if it was graded today, the Clemente would still receive a 4. Like Empty said, I would be patient until a better one comes along.

I agree.

This is my newer graded 56, and imo, it looks much nicer than the 4 shown.