That 75 set is so beloved. The sparring for regular and mini PSA 9s and 10s has been quite heated for a while now, and both sets are notorious for qc issues, every kind imaginable. I can only imagine what the factory floor was like at Topps in the 70s. There must be pics out there. And the cardstock they used back then was awful. Not super thin like late 80s Donruss but the veneers just didn’t hold together very well. It would be cool if a vlogger scientist type disassembled commons from different topps years and analyzed the chemical composition of the card stock. Well I’d like watching it anyways.
Also you’ll note that’s an older slab. Both PSA and SGC just don’t really hand out 10s anymore to cards in the 70s. If you look at every 9 and 10 from this era I suspect the vast majority of them were slabbed before the Covid boom. That Dave Roberts 10 would be a 9 on a regrade. Of course you could say the same for almost any 10 out there.
Also some guy just paid $6M for a banana taped to a wall. The Crypto bros are flush these days.
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