Piedmonts are getting expensive.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by steve B

PSA 161,458 graded
grade how many
10 13
9 267
8.5 49
8 2356
9Q 41
8Q 127
total 2853 =1.7-1.8%

SGC 94,730 graded

grade how many
100 0
98 (10) 1
96 (9) 18
92 (8.5) 28
88 (8) 146
total 193 = 0.2 %

Interesting numbers. I'm not sure I'd say SGC is that much tougher on the high end. It's more likely that there are very few T206s that are NM/Mt left ungraded.

Steve B

Well lets see what the numbers prove about the PSA International thread. If all the 8s were reviewed with the graders and had a 10% chance of getting bumped to a 9, you would have about 267 9s.

And if all the 9s were reviewed with the graders and had a 5% chance of getting bumped to a 10, you would have about 13 10s.

But what if all the 8s were bumped up from 7s......Hmmmm.

Every time a card crosses over to a higher grade or gets a re-review bump the mountain gets more populated at the top. Certainly many of the 8.5s were once 8s as the half grades are relatively recent at PSA. So how many of the 9s were once 8s? How many of these high end cards have been cracked and resubmitted in an effort to get a higher grade and failed?

See what I'm saying.

No I'm not saying cards can routinely sequentially be bumped from 7 to 8 to 9 to 10, but I am saying there are several reasons why these high pop numbers may be inflated, whether the cards are legit or have been touched up .

And I'm not saying the same effect could not be seen with SGC numbers.

I'm an equal opportunity analyst, who firmly believes that....

"Figures can lie and liars can figure."