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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

My current thinking is that a mint grade should be associated with a card which has not been handled. This is independent of all other factors. Mint condition is mint condition. There are damaged mint cards. There are mint cards with poor color, clarity, and all other potential manufacturer errors. There are also cards in mint condition which have been partially or substantially destroyed.

And there should be multiple mint grades in order to evaluate manufacturing errors and other factors which may impact a card's condition eventhough it is in mint (unhandled) condition.

It is therefore my opinion that a mint card should not ever be downgraded below the lowest mint grade.

Your comments on this view are welcome.