PSA Definition In cards, PSA stands for Professional Sports Authenticator, which is one of the largest and most popular card grading companies around. A card grading company evaluates cards and assigns them a grade or card rating based on their condition. The main factors include a card’s centeredness, edges, corners, and surface. What is a […]
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PSA OC is a specific qualifier assigned by the grading company to identify a card as “off center”—even though that card meets the criteria for a particular grade. For example, a PSA 9 means the card is in mint condition, but a PSA 9 OC means that card also significant centering issues. Read More: PSA
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An SGC “A” graded card stands for “Authentic.” This is not a card rating that one would expect on an encapsulated card, but rather a designation. Meaning, it’s an option that can be selected upon submission if you “would like SGC to encapsulate any trimmed or color-enhanced card (that is authentic) with the “A” designation.
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If you’ve been collecting for a while, transport yourself back to the 90s—no internet as we know it today, which means no eBay. Definitely no mobile devices. It was you, your cards, and a Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. Sure, card life was good; card life was simple. But card life was also a little more
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To look up your BCCG serial number, simply enter the certification number below. BGS Card Lookup Enter your certification number Look Up Card Your certification number appears on your Beckett label. If you’d rather go directly to Beckett to look up a BCCG serial number, follow these steps. After doing so you’ll see a screen
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The 1993 Upper Deck Derek Jeter Gold Hologram is a rare rookie card of the Hall of Fame shortstop. In fact, the gold holograms can only be found in factory sets – no card packs – and not even in every factory set, but in only one factory set per case. (Info courtesy of this
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