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Originally Posted by swarmee
Here's my respoonse, although it seems you're just bashing/fishing/trolling.
1) PSA started their 10 point system with Gem Mint in 1998-ish. Before then, were cards ever referred to as Gem Mint? That was the new high standard.
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I've seen the term "gem mint" in hobby articles/ads from the 1970s, though it was an informal description and not a technical term. PSA started grading cards in 1991, not 1998, and I believe they used the same 10-point scale from the beginning. The first TPG, Alan Hager's Accugrade, started in 1989, and I think it used the same 10-point scale. Certainly, "Hager's Comprehensive Guide to Rare Baseball Cards, 1886 to Present", published in 1993, describes a 10-point scale with the same descriptions PSA uses today, including "GEM MINT" for 10. (In this book Hager repeatedly describes this 10-point scale as copyrighted by him, and I think PSA may have had to pay him royalties until his company collapsed in scandal.)