I’ve seen PSA-8.5 quite a lot, and 7.5 I also see sometimes. But I thought some .5 grades were never given before? Today I saw this PSA-1.5 Shining Charizard and it made me wonder if this is the first PSA-1.5 Pokémon card, or if there are more? Are there any .5 grades that have no Pokémon cards at all?
Greetz,
Quuador
I have a 1.5 zard as well.
.5 grades do exist for all PSA “X.5” - not sure for Pokemon, but definitely for sports. Not too common though
There is no 9.5 for PSA. The 1.5 is actually a special category with it’s own destination. 2=GOOD, 1=POOR, 1.5=FAIR
Probably intended for those old sports cards that look just a little better than POOR lol
What would the point be of a 1.5 grade? And I am still not sure how a 8.5 grade should be interpreted, although I can see the point in having a more nuanced evaluation in the top grades. If 0.5 grades exist for all grades PSA might as well change the scale from 1 to 20. Or 1 to 40 if they ever introduce 0.25 grades. It would be fun though with a PSA 11 for the truly gem mint cards…
Forgot 9.5 haha. sorry about that
I usually only see .5 low grades for higher end items. I doubt PSA would care to label a card with a 1.5 if the value was under $100. This is probably the reason you see a lot of these on vintage sports.
So I decided to make a collage on this. If anyone finds the missing PSA 2.5, please let me know.
a 9.5 grade would actually make the most sense, since the value of a card increases the most from PSA 9 to PSA 10
Here is the grade distribution for basically every PSA Pokemon card currently graded:
Here’s the same thing but excluding 1-10 and 8.5 (showing the ‘rarer’ grades):
Auth - 604
1 - 749
1Q - 5
1.5 - 25
1.5Q - 0
2 - 543
2.5 - 5
2Q - 2
3 - 1247
3.5 - 22
3Q - 9
4 - 2782
4.5 - 24
4Q - 8
5 - 7557
5.5 - 43
5Q - 20
6 - 13996
6.5 - 144
6Q - 31
7 - 24096
7.5 - 303
7Q - 37
8 - 86804
8.5 - 5899
8Q - 177
9 - 332407
9Q - 1014
10 - 327730
Total: 806283
