What are the grades for baseball cards?
What are the grades for baseball cards?
Grading
- MINT or MT (PSA 9 or SGC 96):
- Near Mint to Mint or NM/MT (PSA 8 or SGC 88)
- Near Mint or NM (PSA 7 or SGC 84)
- Excellent to Mint or EX/MT (PSA 6 or SGC 80)
- Excellent or EX (PSA 5 or SGC 60)
- Very Good to Excellent or VG/EX (PSA 4 or SGC 50)
- Very Good or VG (PSA 3 or SGC 40)
- Good or GD (PSA 2 or SGC 30)
What does a PSA 10 look like?
A PSA Gem Mint 10 card is a virtually perfect card. Attributes include four perfectly sharp corners, sharp focus and full original gloss. The image must be centered on the card within a tolerance not to exceed approximately 55/45 to 60/40 percent on the front, and 75/25 percent on the reverse.
What does a 60/40 card look like?
For example a 60/40 card could be 60% of the border on the top and 40% of the border on the bottom. PSA also has an off center qualifier for cards that have all charactestics of a higher grade card except for centering. These are marked as “OC” (e.g. PSA 8 OC).
How do I know if my card will grade well?
Cards are graded based on these factors: Centering, Corners, Edges, and Surface. They give each attribute a grade of 1-10, then combine those to give the card a final grade of 1-10. Anything above a 9 is worth book value or greater, as BGS 9 (known as a “Mint 9”) is the condition expected of the card out of the pack.
How do I know if my card has good centering?
The GradeMaster Card Centering Tool Note the number of the line on the GradeMaster Tool that indicator is closest to on each side. You may end up with a “4” on one side and a “3” on the other. Look up that number combination in the GradeMaster Table. You did it; that is your centering.
What is the best card grading service?
Beckett’s Grading Services (BGS, BCCG, and BVG) Found in the year 1999, Beckett Grading is one of the best and most famous grading companies in the world. The company is headquartered in Yorba Linda, California: Beckett Grading Services is a name to reckon with in the trading card industry.
How do I know if my cards are worth grading?
Simply put: the higher the grade, the better it sells! If you pull a low numbered parallel of one of the game’s hottest players, that’s great. Getting it graded and having it come back as a 9.5 or 10 is even better.
How to grade a baseball card?
Near Mint to Mint (NM-MT). A truly exceptional card. Centering is 60/40 or better.
How much does it cost to have a baseball card graded?
The real cost to have a card graded is usually $14 to $17 per card when you consider the overpriced shipping and insurance charges. As the value of the card goes up, so do the charges. It is quite common to pay $40 to $300 (plus shipping, handling, and insurance) to have a Mickey Mantle baseball card (or another high dollar card) graded.
How to get your sports cards graded?
– Enter your order into its grading system database – Generate specific order numbers for your cards – Update your Orders page with additional details about your submissions – Notify you of any errors or issues with your order (if such issues exist) – Apply stickers to each card, which allow PSA (and you) to track the progress of your grades – Generate an estimated due date for your order – Research each of your cards to ensure accuracy, then send you an email confirming that each card has been researched and confirmed as accurate – Inform you of any errors or of cards that are not eligible for grading – Grade your cards – Generate an official PSA Lighthouse Label for each eligible card – Seal your card and Lighthouse Label in the trademark PSA case – Re-review your card and grade for accuracy – Confirm your return shipping information – Return your card to you
What is a graded baseball card?
Card grading is required to establish true baseball card values. If you want a dealer to buy your baseball cards as ‘graded’, it must be done by one of the professional sports card grading companies whose methods are accepted by sports card dealers.