Quick question. I’m looking into buying a PSA 10 vintage card, does the cert numbers matter as far as whether the cert number is low or high? Or does it really matter? In terms of value. Is the cert number a high component?
The 4 is mind boggling? I feel like a card that clean getting a random 6 is a situation where you can say ‘okay I must have missed a tiny dent’, but a 4??
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Thats easy: The 10 has a dot of edgewear on bottom backside (near the bottom left corner), so even though it is in objectively the worst condition, it stands out as unique to the grader. The 9 has the best centering but lacks that “it factor”. 8 has 53/47 centering T to B, so clearly a disgusting card.
All makes sense and checks out here 
But on a serious note: shit sucks, hopefully things change with PSA sooner rather than later.
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Higher cert numbers often sell for a bit more because people perceive (rightly or wrongly) that PSA’s standards are tougher now and it’s harder to get 10s.
Personally, I won’t touch any high-graded new-cert vintage for my collection due to the prevalence of altering and the failure of many grading companies to detect it. I could very easily see the premium for new certs vanishing quickly if altering becomes more prevalent than it already is.
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After I googled it it said the same thing you said in your first paragraph, but I ended up buying the PSA 10 with the earliest cert in the end. Not sure how big of a factor it truly is in the pokemon collecting world as a whole but I feel like an older cert with a vintage card, at least look wise, just gives it that better look to it all. That “relic” kinda thing. Your point could be true too. Thanks!
Litwick saw I was fighting the good fight against @niece and his slander
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I was really hoping that was actually you and a skill you had. Disappointed
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how do you know it’s not?? i put nothing past @niece’s talents tbh
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Question, I’m not understanding what’s going on here. So if I take a card & draw on it, & the card is a 10, does that make it an “Auto 10”? Does it fall under “PSA/DNA Cert”? Or is it because the artist who drew it is also the same artist on the Pokemon card & that’s what makes it “Authentic”? Just confused about the labeling here & what’s going on.
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The card has been deemed authentic and PSA thinks that the autograph is aesthetically beautiful, so it got an AUTO 10.
https://www.psacard.com/services/autographgradingstandards
You can find cards with grades for both the physical card and the autograph.
This one is from eBay, found on Google images:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/157009911830
Edit to clarify that the inverse is true as well, you can find cards with a physical card grade that also have an authenticated autograph that does not have a grade either.
You used to have to elect for either service, IIRC, but they have changed their policy:
https://www.psacard.com/en-CA/services/tradingcardgrading/dualgrading
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The top grade is for the card and the bottom grade is for the auto. So this is an authentic Warp Energy which has been “autographed” and the auto is graded a 10.
Keep in mind that PSA only grades the written autograph and nothing else. The sketch is completely irrelevant to the grade.
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Ah ok. So is this a thing where the artist got recognized by PSA due to maybe his popularity as an artist or maybe involvement in Pokemon? Otherwise for example, I could draw on a mint card, sign it, & get the same labeling then.
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We have a thread which is discussing this topic.
Cheers!
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PSA won’t authenticate your personal autograph unless they feel there is some substantive reason to do so I’m afraid. There are YouTubers with their autograph on file, for example, but they’re likely PSA partners, if that makes sense.
Their recognition/acceptance of signatures in their database is arbitrary, to a point.
Also, PSA doesn’t look at additional drawings (sketches) at all when grading/authenticating autographs, as was mentioned, Moduwa’s personal autograph is the stylized “M” and “O above a line” as is seen directly underneath the right hand Mewtwo sketch on the card you shared. That’s all that PSA graded/authenticated for the AUTO 10 designation, to be 100% clear.
Now-in saying what I said about “substantive reasoning” to authenticate your personal autograph- I think it’d be cool if your signature was accepted and recorded by PSA since you seem to have A&R’d for someone that worked with/was on BMF Ent., haha, super cool to see that!!
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