PSA — Cardboard Police

October 02, 2026

Coinbase Says "Vault It or Ship It." The Pokémon Pack Platforms It Would Join Publish a Third Option: Sell It Back

On Sept. 28, Coinbase posted five short lines to X: "Your binder is about to get a major upgrade. Rip packs on your phone. Every pull backed by a real, physical card. Vault it or ship it. Soon on Coinbase." The text never names a card game. The imag...

Hobby Article Pokemon PSA Hobby Trends

CASE #0353 Informational

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September 30, 2026

CGC Opened Grading Drop-Offs at 20 FYE Stores — Not One of Them in a City on PSA's Lids List

CGC has put its grading intake behind the counter at 20 FYE stores. The announcement came on September 25, four days after ICv2 reported that PSA had done the same thing with 50 Lids stores, a program this blog covered as CASE #0335. Two major card g...

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CASE #0347 Informational

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September 30, 2026

PSA Filmed the Grading of Two Jordan Ultimate Collection Logoman 1/1s — Later Editions of the $2.928 Million 2003-04 Card

CARDBOARD POLICE PSA posted "Behind The Scenes: Grading Two of Michael Jordan's Most Valuable Cards" to its own YouTube channel, PSA Official, on September 29. It is a grading company filming its own grading room, and the two cards on the table are...

Video of the Day Basketball PSA Grading Million Dollar Cards

CASE #0348 Informational

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September 28, 2026

1965 Topps Battle #15 Dog Warrior Owns Its Set's Best Top End: 10 of 69 Copies at PSA 9 or Better

Only ten copies of 1965 Topps Battle #15 Dog Warrior have ever come back from PSA at a 9 or a 10. That sounds like a small number until you see the set around it: no other card among the 66 in 1965 Topps Battle has done it at a higher rate. The card...

Card of the Day PSA Topps Vintage Non-Sports

CASE #0346 Informational

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September 25, 2026

1948 Bowman #69 George Mikan — 40 PSA 1s, Five Times Any Other Card in the Set, and One of Its Twelve PSA 10s

PSA has graded 40 copies of 1948 Bowman #69 George Mikan a PSA 1. No other card in the 72-card set has more than eight. The same card also holds one PSA 10. In a set where perfect copies barely exist, the most famous card is one of the few that has ...

Card of the Day Basketball PSA Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0343 Informational

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September 24, 2026

1951 Parkhurst #66 Gordie Howe — 50 Copies Sealed as Authentic, More Than His PSA 8s and 9s Combined

The copy pictured here sits in a PSA slab graded NM-MT+ 8.5, cert 20915377. Look past the label and the card does something modern cards rarely bother with: it prints the player's record on the front. Under the portrait of a young Detroit right wing ...

Card of the Day PSA Hockey Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0340 Informational

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September 24, 2026

PSA's App Now Tracks Cards It Has Never Graded — the Third Move in Ten Days Aimed at the Decision to Submit

PSA's app will now keep track of a card PSA has never touched. On September 23 the company rolled out a reworked Collection experience that accepts ungraded cards alongside slabs, puts a running estimated value on the whole pile, and lets a collector...

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CASE #0338 Informational

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September 23, 2026

1959 Topps #514 Bob Gibson — the Fifth-Most-Graded Card in a 572-Card Set, Behind Only Mantle, Clemente, Aaron and Mays

Bob Gibson's rookie card sits at #514 in the 1959 Topps set, the same season Gibson was still two years from his first All-Star selection and more than a decade from the Cardinals retiring his number. Nobody printing this card in 1959 was betting on ...

Card of the Day Baseball PSA Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0337 Misdemeanor

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September 23, 2026

PSA Took Its Grading Intake Into 50 Lids Stores — and the Counter Staff Handle the Shipping

PSA has started taking grading submissions off the mail truck and onto a mall counter. The company's new program, called PSA GO, lets a customer walk into a participating Lids store, hand a Lids employee their cards, and let the store handle everythi...

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CASE #0335 Informational

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September 22, 2026

1968 Topps #196 Bob Griese — Two Gem Mints in 2,007 Tries, and a Population That Crests at PSA 6

Bob Griese's rookie card sits at number 196 in a 219-card set, well into the second series, on a checklist that opens with Bart Starr and runs through Joe Namath, Gale Sayers, Johnny Unitas and Dick Butkus. It is the most-graded card in that set. PSA...

Card of the Day Football PSA Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0334 Misdemeanor

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the cardboard chronicle

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Coinbase Says "Vault It or Ship It." The Pokémon Pack Platforms It Would Join Publish a Third Option: Sell It Back

CGC Opened Grading Drop-Offs at 20 FYE Stores — Not One of Them in a City on PSA's Lids List

PSA Filmed the Grading of Two Jordan Ultimate Collection Logoman 1/1s — Later Editions of the $2.928 Million 2003-04 Card

1965 Topps Battle #15 Dog Warrior Owns Its Set's Best Top End: 10 of 69 Copies at PSA 9 or Better

1948 Bowman #69 George Mikan — 40 PSA 1s, Five Times Any Other Card in the Set, and One of Its Twelve PSA 10s

1951 Parkhurst #66 Gordie Howe — 50 Copies Sealed as Authentic, More Than His PSA 8s and 9s Combined

PSA's App Now Tracks Cards It Has Never Graded — the Third Move in Ten Days Aimed at the Decision to Submit

1959 Topps #514 Bob Gibson — the Fifth-Most-Graded Card in a 572-Card Set, Behind Only Mantle, Clemente, Aaron and Mays

PSA Took Its Grading Intake Into 50 Lids Stores — and the Counter Staff Handle the Shipping

1968 Topps #196 Bob Griese — Two Gem Mints in 2,007 Tries, and a Population That Crests at PSA 6