How to tell age of PSA graded cards, numbering system

[jchcollins]

Yes. If you see a vintage card in a slab graded PSA 5, and that card appears to you to actually be in EX or so condition, the card was graded between 2000 and 2012. If you see a card in a slab graded PSA 5 that appears to be at least a PSA 7 NM, well then that card was probably graded in 2017 or 2018...

I'm kidding. Somewhere here on this forum there is a thread with a guide to the flips which tells you based on flip format and subtle changes (the hologram and barber pole stickers for example are recent additions...) roughly what year ranges those flips were used for in grading. The oldest are the flips that look like they have almost dot matrix style font on them, with slashes in the zeros and that kind of thing. Most of those are from the 1990's.

[dictoresno]

they actually started the lighthouse labels around cert 274XXXXX in June 2017.

[Exhibitman]

This one goes back about 20 years:

[Eric72]

I'm wondering how old this one is. Any ideas?

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I'm wondering how old this one is. Any ideas?

There are some cards graded a few hundred after this from 1997. So I would say around there.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by swarmee

There are some cards graded a few hundred after this from 1997. So I would say around there.

Thank you.

The case was already scratched when I got it, 10 or so years ago. Otherwise, I'd have been able to get a better look at the card.

I'm wondering if a reholder with review and possible grade bump is possible. The difference between 8 and 8.5 is much more substantial than it used to be.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I'm wondering if a reholder with review and possible grade bump is possible. The difference between 8 and 8.5 is much more substantial than it used to be.

PSA removed the option for Grade Reviews during the pandemic phase when they were raising their prices, and may not ever bring it back. Nat and Kevin have both discussed it saying that they are discouraging reviews of all cards that have already been graded, because they trust the accuracy of them already.
I think you'll have to break it out to have it given a higher grade.

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

This one goes back about 20 years:

Mighty generous grade on that Ryan card. How is that a 7? Guessing a high roller submitted that one initially.

[aconte]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

Mighty generous grade on that Ryan card. How is that a 7? Guessing a high roller submitted that one initially.

I'm thinking the grading standards wre much more relaxed back then, While
PSA pretty much got it right 20 years ago, there are a lot of overgraded cards
I see on ebay from that range of cert numbers.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

Mighty generous grade on that Ryan card. How is that a 7? Guessing a high roller submitted that one initially.

Nope, I did. Back in the day a near mint card was visibly not pack fresh.

[The-Cardfather]

This should help:

https://allvintagecards.com/history-of-psa-flips/