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Posted By: Matt

I'd be interested in the forum's thoughts about cards that have clean sharp corners/edges but a glaring problem elsewhere (example below). How should these be graded? A card with that kind of damage might be considered poor, but without that damage, the card is a 5 or 6. Should that be graded as the average of the two (as it seems SGC did here), or do you prefer a designation such as PSA offers of 5(MK)?



In this case, an ink spot (it's not a hole) right on his forehead is the glaring flaw.

Also, what if the spot was on the back instead?