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Posted By: AdamBaxter

I can't speak for other cards that SGC would consider trimmed, but I think that Zeenuts are given a degree of leeway due to the fact that A) The coupons or tabs were intended to be removed and B) There are so few Zeenuts out there with coupons, that the slabbed population would be next to zero if SGC or other authenticators didn't make some allowances for that issue. Zeenuts are probably handled by grading companies very similarly to strip cards. Some strip card are encapsulated, even though most strip cards issues are trimmed to seperate individual cards from a strip. With Zeenuts, Strip cards, etc., SGC probably checks to see whether the trimming occured during the time of issue or recently and then base their decision to slab them on that.