Many collectors will submit their cards to a third-party service to evaluate and assess their physical condition. This third-party service will assign a numerical grade between 1-10; the higher the grade, the better the condition. Cards with higher grades tend to fetch higher prices on the secondary market. A card in perfect condition will receive a GEM Mint rating of 10. Mint and near-mint graded cards tend to be highly valued, and often fetch prices that are exponentially higher than cards with low grades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more on card grading, check out this video<\/a>. Many collectors will submit their cards to a third-party service to evaluate and assess their physical condition. This third-party service will assign a numerical grade between 1-10; the higher the grade, the better the condition. Cards with higher grades tend to fetch higher prices on the secondary market. A card in perfect condition will receive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":64594,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"lexicon":[],"class_list":["post-64593","definition","type-definition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/definition\/64593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/definition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/definition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lexicon","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripped.topps.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexicon?post=64593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For a breakdown of the different card grading services<\/a>, check out this guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"