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Posted By: HW

Judge:

I see your point, but I would rather have someone use the description "scrap book remnants are on the back of the card along with a large glue stain but it's ExMt otherwise" than only its technical grade. I do not think that the person is calling the card EX-MT. He is just trying to say that the card appears nice, but has some problems.

On some cards, back damage bothers me a lot, on others, such as Old Judges and W600s, its does not. For instance, I would much rather have an EX/MT Old Judge with a nice and photo, but with back damage than and EX card with a light photo and surface wear, let along a Good card, which is probably the correct technical grade of a card that appears EX-MT but has back damage.

I prefer to have as much info as possible and base my decision based on my priorities rather than have a seller or a grading company try and assign a single grade to a card, especially when it has abnormal wear to it.