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Posted By: Paul

This just illustrates again the fact that the lower 2 or 3 grades have way too much variety in them. Assuming that the Cobb really has some spider wrinkles and was properly graded, who wouldn't rather have this card than one with massive creases in the same grade? With the lower grades, you just don't know what you're going to get. The grade of "2" could rationally be divided into about 5 or 10 distinct grades. The current grading systems focus on the higher grades, where the tiniest little flaw moves you from one grade down to the next, and you can be reasonably confident what a particular grade of card will look like without even seeing the card.