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hankronI never understood in the first place why anyone would want to pay $1 million for a baseball card or $125K for a Tiger Woods or $100,000 for a Mickey Mantle. If someone has the collecting budget and burning desire to drop six or seven figures on a professionally graded trading card, I'll let him worry about whether this or that edge is funky or a 10 should be a 9.
Call me silly, but I don't see how any Mint card should be worth 30 or 50 or whatever times more than the Near Mint version unless it was signed by Walter Johnson or the cast of Leave it to Beaver. So when I see a multi-millionaire paying an extra $95,000 so he could get a 10 instead of a 7 on the label above his card, it's not a scene from The English Patient for me.