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Originally Posted by profholt82
As soon as I saw the card, I thought, "how the heck is that a 5?!" Have to say, I'm glad to see that most of you feel the same way. This is a disingenuous business decision by SGC if I had to guess. Probably assuming the 5 grade will make it become the highest selling card of all time at auction, where a proper grade of 3/3.5 would likely get less publicity. That's my assumption anyway.
All of that said, it's a beautiful card and one of the best examples of the Wagner that are out there. But SGC looks bad here.
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I guess at the time this was graded in July 2021, SGC had been mostly shut out of the top sports card sales, and had some blockbuster sales envy.
The highest card sales had all been either PSA (PSA 3 Honus Wagner for $3.7M, PSA 10 Gretsky O-Pee-Chee and a PSA 2 Wagner both for $3.75M, PSA 10 '52 Topps Mantle for $5.2M, or BGS (Trout 2009 Superfractor Autograph for $3.9M, 2017 Patrick Mahomes for $4.3M, 2003-04 Rookie Patch Autograph Lebron James).
PSA also had the highest graded T206 Honus Wagners with the trimmed 8, a 5 and 4. So maybe there was some Wagner envy as well.
But now, with SGC having the 3 highest sales ever with the SGC 3 Wagner selling for $6.6M through REA, the recent sale of the SGC 2 Wagner for over $7M through Goldin, and the soon-to-be record with the SGC 9.5 Mantle through Heritage, they really don't need any more publicity.
But when this was graded, maybe the high profile sales and Wagner envy got the best of them.