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PSA was launched in July 1991 by David Hall, owner of the coin grading company Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), to serve collectors as a third-party card grader. [1] At the outset, the business faced difficulties owing to a limited demand from collectors who sought card grading services. [ 2 ]
Collectors Universe Inc. is an American company formed in 1986, now based in Santa Ana, California, which provides third-party authentication and grading services to collectors, retail buyers and sellers of collectibles. Its authentication services focus on coins, trading cards, sports memorabilia, and autographs.
One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series. The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest. In addition, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) grades cards 1–10, and can authenticate autographs as well.
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PSA, the industry leader in the important task of grading cards, is slowly resuming its operations. Until then, a booming billion dollar sports card market must sit and wait. Billion dollar sports ...
This list of items as of August 20, 2021 is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1]This list includes only the highest price paid for a given card and does not include separate entries for individual copies of the same card or multiple sales prices for the same copy of a card.
A T206 Wagner given a two on the PSA's 1–10 grading scale sold for $75,000 in September 2000. Five years later, in 2005, another PSA 2 card sold for $237,000. Included in the above auction, a PSA 1 card sold for $110,000. [90] In 2004, a PSA PR-FR-1 Wagner sold for $109,638. [91] Another PSA PR-FR-1 brought $132,000 one year later in 2005. [91]
A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Across all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. [2] The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale in November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present.