I hear that. The chipping on the left side of that card, even if pack fresh and right out of a booster, is too much for a 9 imo. (Even for Jungle.) Especially when one like this, is considered a 7.
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Thanks for providing scans of both the front and back!
I have a complete Unlimited Jungle and Fossil holo set in PSA 9, and I’d say roughly 30–50% of the cards show noticeable silvering, similar to yours. When I first started buying these, that threw me off too, so I looked into it. If I remember correctly, this is widely considered a factory cutting artifact, and because of that it typically doesn’t have a major impact on the grade.
One interesting detail is that this kind of silvering is usuallyonly visible from the front, which seems to be related to how the cards were cut.
Also, the Snorlax you showed looks strong overall: nice corners, no edge whitening, and a clean holo. Some of my Jungle PSA 9s have silvering and additional issues like edge whitening, minor corner dings, or light surface scratches. So I would say yours compares very well.
Lately I’ve been looking to pick up more Fossil cards, and based on enlarged PSA 9 scans on eBay, I’m seeing a similar proportion, around 30–50% with visible silvering as well.
While I’m generally trying to avoid silvering when possible, I’d still buy a really strong copy if everything else is excellent, especially the holo surface and color saturation. For me, the other parameters are more important. But I guess everyone has different priorities with collecting
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I always wondered why I would see 9s and sometimes 10s with silvering. Very interesting!
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This would be lucky to grade a psa 5 these days. I could never pay psa 8 prices for a card like this when I could buy a psa 5/6 of a fraction of the price
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This listing actually made me gasp.
I’m going to assume this is a product of PSA being behind on their backlog causing them to be sloppy.
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That’s criminal. With those scans I would expect an 8.
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https://www.psacard.com/cert/126963222/psa
this almost looks like holo cracking? is it just a weird magnification/scan effect?
are these typical of 10s for neo?
Togetic - good corners/edges, Azu - dubious edges. Generally seems like PSA barely cares about surface.
The neo 10s I’ve owned have had 1-2 extremely light, factory print lines. What these cards have feels more like wear. Obviously some older labels are misgraded and have clearer defects, but leaving those aside for the sake of argument..
It’s so funny to me that half of the cards in this thread I would consider regular PSA 10s.
Grading is so different now
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I’mma be honest sometimes y’all post on here and I literally have no idea what you’re seeing.
“Those edges? Disgusting. Those corners? Disgusting.”
They look perfect to me
“Look at that surface. Disgusting.”
It looks fine
“Are you kidding me on that centering?”
It looks even. Y’all wild 
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Right now this card is up for auction on Fanatics. The funny thing is that this card, which is clearly a PSA 7-8, or at least would be under modern grading standards, is currently being bid at more than 10× the price of any PSA 9 with a new cert in much better conditions. I’d bet the people placing those bids didn’t even bother to really look at the card. It’s crazy how in this phase of the hobby people are buying the label first and the card second
This must remember this
A 10 is still a 10
a 9 is just a 9
the fundamental things apply
as time goes by
