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?
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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!
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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 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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Got the upcharge email. These got upcharged:
Shining Mew - PSA 5 (lol)
B&W Shiny Empoleon JP - PSA 10
B&W Shiny Exeggcute JP - PSA 10
XY Hoopa FA promo - PSA 10
Pretty happy with that.
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Long shot here, but I’d like to make a request:
for those of us who have had recent either really poor or inconsistent PSA grading results, could you check to see which facility they came from? To determine where they were graded, look at the return shipping origin location.
I won’t say where yet, but my worst submissions have all come from a single facility, while the results from all other recent submissions are more in line with past results.
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If you’re talking about Jersey this has been a problem going as far back as they started that facility
talked about many times — in my last period of grading they all got sent there and all were garbage
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It’s actually not New Jersey lol
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Well I default then to my sentiment of the last many years of observation then, psa is garbage overall at grading vintage 
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Jersey facility by far gave me the worst sub. Recently got my first one back from the Miami facility and it was a pretty good result.
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Interesting, that throws a bit of a wrench in my theory, but sample size is still too small to be able to make a determination either way.
the Florida facility is where I am having my problems. Since June 2025, all of my submissions have either been graded in California or Florida. The difference in results between the two are surprising:
California: 57% PSA 10 rate
Florida: 27% PSA 10 rate
(Note: all cards are modern English)
It’s something that I am going to be watching very closely over the next few months. I also think it’s important to note that both of my submissions that showcased extreme centering requirements (52/48 or better was the threshold) came from Florida.
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