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PSA grades millions of cards per year, many worth six or seven figures. Without insurance, collectors face significant financial risk if their cards are lost or damaged, despite PSA’s public assurances of security. The first significantly controversial card grade was in fact the first card ever graded by PSA. This was the T206 Honus Wagner ...
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.
A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). [1]
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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.
Cards are evaluated by third-party services, most often Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Beckett Grading Services (BGS) and Sportscard Guaranty (SGC), and given a grade on a ten-point scale based on condition. [5] The images below do not necessarily represent the individual specimen sold but are representative of the given cards.
Example of an Early American Cent - the coins that inspired Sheldon to create a more precise grading scale. (Courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History [photograph by Jaclyn Nash].) The Sheldon Coin Grading Scale is a 70-point coin grading scale used in the numismatic assessment of
A Black Lotus card signed by Richard Garfield with a grade of 6 from Beckett was sold for $72,000. [2] As of March 2023 there are six alpha Black Lotus cards graded as PSA 10. [20] As of October 2014, there were 34 Beta Black Lotus cards rated PSA 10, [21] and As of December 2020 four rated BGS 10 and 57 rated BGS 9.5. [22]