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Posted By: Phil Garry

The way the grading companies see it (if I can speak on their behalf) is: if a card is purposely altered in such a way as to "improve" the perceived condition of the card, it will receive an "Authentic" grade, at best. A card with any amount of natural wear given that a huge chunk is not missing and the card is still reasonable ledgible will ge graded a "1 - Poor".