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Originally Posted by CrazyDiamond
Thanks for the info - pretty excited about it. i heard about the plate scratches but wasn't really sure what it meant. I hope i contributed.
bought it raw at the show. SGC was doing an on site special.
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Even pics of another example contribute.
There's a lot more to figure out past the sheet layout.
The scratches can be more obvious or less even for the same card. So the plate -if it was a stone could have been resurfaced when it wore out and the scratches partly polished off. (I think it's possible, and some of the same scratches may have survived faintly into the 350 series.
Combined with front differences that might eventually lead to understanding print runs within the currently accepted ones.
While there's no real premium right now, I think eventually - like maybe 20 years from now. There will be an ability to sort of super specialize, and some fronts with the scratch may be much tougher than others. And if the scratch happened very late in production any scratch may prove to be fairly tough compared to a card without it.
It's just way too early to tell.
Steve B