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Posted By: Elliot

I'm not trying to defend SGC here, but if they viewed it in the GAI slab, they might not have seen the alteration. In fact they might have been influenced by the fact that it was already graded. That's not to absolve them of culpability as they still should have closely examined the card, however it is an explanation as to why they would not have picked up the alteration. I would also assume that once a grader gives an Ok to the grade, it is left to somebody else to break the card out of the GAI slab and then entomb it in an SGC slab. Thus, an SGC grader would never have seen this card raw.