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Sportzcommish
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:20 AM | |
I'm reading on how to grade cards but don't find where centering 90/10, 70/30, etc. is explained other than it should be applied as part of the grade. Can someone please help?
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C2Cigars
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:46 AM | |
A perfectly centered card would be 50/50. It's easily seen with bordered cards. 50 percent of the total combined border is on each side of the card. The worst centering would be a 100/0. Where one side would have none of the border and the other side would have 100 percent of the combined borders (or in other words twice as wide as a normal border). Of course at that point it'll probably get a miscut (MC) tag.
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RoundtheDiamond87
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:57 AM | |
I use a ruler with closely spaced tick marks. If looking at left/right centering, I'll measure the number of ticks on the left (say 4) and the number of ticks on the right (say 9). I'll add the total number of ticks on both sides (say 13), and divide one side by the total (say 4/13=0.30). For this example we're talking about a 30/70 left/right centering.
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mzentko
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 11:41 AM | |
also, when you are reading whatever price guide you are looking at, and descriptions of what flaws each grade can have, centering should be part of the text.
for example, if an otherwise nm card has 90-10 centering, it can be no higher than vgex.
ex can have no worse than 80-20
nm can have no worse than 70-30
hope this helps
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Sportzcommish
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 1:21 PM | |
Thanks, guys. It's much clearer.
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Colengco90
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NJDevils
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Friday, January 13, 2017 4:09 PM | |
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Vvvergeer
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Friday, January 13, 2017 4:22 PM | |
My understanding of grading is that, once the company puts a disclaimer on it -- OC, MK, MC -- then the card is graded as if that flaw doesn't exist. So, I think in theory one could have a Gem Mint 10, MK. Seems odd and probably impossible.
I read somewhere that the disclaimer, or whatever the more technical term is, reduces the grade by about two grades. So that card would be considered about a 7.
But it's all smoke and mirrors.
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C2Cigars
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Friday, January 13, 2017 4:51 PM | |
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RoundtheDiamond87
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Friday, January 13, 2017 9:51 PM | |
I measured the Jim Piersall top/bottom centering using my engineer scale and came up with 4 notches on the bottom and 2 notches on the top, which comes out to about a 65/35 top-bottom centering. According to Beckett, the highest grade a card with this centering can have is [NM 7.0]. There is one exception; however; if all of the other rating are exceedingly higher than a single bad rating, then the grade can be increased by up to 2 half grades, which would put this card at a [NM-MT 8.0] at most. I'd have a difficult time acceptin this card as a [MT 9.0], but I guess the (OC) designation allows the buyer to drop the grade accordingly.
Edited on: Jan 13, 2017 - 10:01PM
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