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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 ]
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.
The prices went up in 2022, with the bar being raised above $1 million for rare cards authenticated to be in perfect condition. ... of the PSA, a third-party grading and authentication service ...
The Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) company graded this card a PSA 8 Near Mint-Mint (NM-MT) on their 10-point scale, [31] [32] the highest grade given to a T206 Honus Wagner card. Bill Hughes [33] was the official grader of the card, working for PSA at the time. Hughes admitted to knowing that the card had been altered when he graded it.
A PSA 1 Mantle is expensive, running around $25,000 to $35,000. A PSA 9 Mantle — there are fewer than 10 known in existence — fetched a whopping $5.2 million at auction in January. Condition ...
HobbyListings pointed to Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Beckett Grading Services (BGS), and Sportscard Guaranty Corporation (SGC) as some of the more esteemed grading services.
James Beckett was a statistics professor before launching Beckett Media. [3] In the 1970s, Beckett introduced some of the initial price guides for the baseball card industry, providing more detailed information on specific card prices compared to the newsletters that collectors were accustomed to. [4]
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