Rare and pristine sports cards can be worth a lot of money, but it is not always clear how the value is calculated. The best way is to get your sports card graded by a professional grading service. This will help you to know which grade your card is in and how much this means it is worth. There are a few different grading services available that can help you learn more about your collection.
To help you understand how it works, here is everything you wanted to know about sports card grading systems.
Grading Classes
The highest grade of sportscards is “gem mint” and then there are various classes going down to the worst grade of “poor”:
- Gem Mint
- Mint
- Near Mint to Mint
- Near Mint
- Excellent-Mint
- Excellent
- Very Good
- Good
- Fair
- Poor
These classes are universal across the sports card grading industry.