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Posted By: Marc

at a point in time before SGC went to the split-point grading system [e.g. 1-10], the head grader was responsible for some notable errors - most notably the Doyle SGC debacle involving Alan Rosen and Keith Olbermann.

All that being said - SGC was definitely more lenient those days in terms of centering. If nothing else - the Merkle era flips have a green "SGC" in the middle of the card flip. There is an SGC 96 Aaron rookie on Ebay that is an example of a flip from this era. The important thing to note is that SGC does not necessarily honor those flips today. In other words, if you took one of those flips and resubmitted it to SGC today to get it put into a split-grade holder - there is a definite chance that the card will not grade as high as it originally did.