PSA — Cardboard Police

September 22, 2026

A John Cena One-of-One Sold for $329,400 — and the Three Biggest Wrestling-Card Sales on Record Are Graded 7, 8 and 9

On September 20 a single trading card of John Cena sold at Goldin for $329,400 — $270,000 on the hammer, plus the house's 22 percent buyer's premium. Goldin announced the result as "The All-Time Highest Public Sale for any Wrestling Card." The card ...

Hobby Article PSA Market Analysis Topps Non-Sports

CASE #0332 Informational

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September 17, 2026

Sports Card Investor Graded the Same Cards at PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC — and PSA and CGC Do Not Publish the Same Top Grade

CARDBOARD POLICE On September 13, Sports Card Investor published a video titled "I Graded the SAME Cards with PSA, BGS, CGC & SGC... The Results Were SHOCKING." It is a familiar argument, and the four companies' own published documents explain ...

Video of the Day PSA Grading Hobby Trends

CASE #0328 Informational

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September 17, 2026

The 1951 Photograph Behind the 1952 Topps Mantle Sold for $3 Million — the Card It Produced Still Has Only Three PSA 10s

The picture came first. Everything the hobby has spent seventy-four years grading and reselling is a reproduction of it — and the original has now been given a price of its own. A 1951 photograph of Mickey Mantle, the image Topps used to build his 1...

Hobby Article Baseball PSA Topps Vintage Million Dollar Cards

CASE #0326 Informational

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September 16, 2026

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie is the first trading card ever to pass 200,000 graded copies. Collector Nation reported the milestone on September 16, and framed it the way the number deserves: no card in any sport, and nothing in the Pok&...

Hobby Article Baseball PSA Grading Junk Wax

CASE #0323 Informational

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September 13, 2026

PSA Opens a $59.99 Standard Tier on September 14 — and Its Own Reopening Target Is Still 4.9 Million Cards Away

PSA is reopening a door on September 14 — just not the one collectors have been waiting at since June. The company announced on September 9 that a new service level called Standard will open that Monday at $59.99 per card, with an estimated 90 to 100...

Hobby Article PSA Grading Hobby Trends

CASE #0317 Informational

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August 26, 2026

1935 National Chicle #34 Bronko Nagurski — 187 Graded, One Mint 9, and Not a Single 10

PSA has graded the 1935 National Chicle Bronko Nagurski 187 times and has never once written a ten on the label. Not a single Gem Mint copy exists. There is exactly one Mint 9. There are six NM-MT 8s. The other 180 grade below that. The card picture...

Card of the Day Football PSA Vintage Rookie Card Pre-War

CASE #0284 Misdemeanor

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August 25, 2026

PSA Extends Its Turnaround Times Again — and This Time the Company Said So — Video of the Day

CARDBOARD POLICE Four days ago this blog filed CASE #0269 on a different channel making a similar claim, and drew a line under it: the claim that PSA's posted turnaround times had moved the wrong way was, at that point, one channel's reading rather...

Video of the Day PSA Grading Hobby Health

CASE #0283 Informational

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August 25, 2026

1982 Topps #51 Anthony Muñoz All-Pro RC — 42 Gems From 2,359, and the Same Gem Rate as Lawrence Taylor

The card above is one of forty-two. PSA has certified 2,359 copies of Anthony Muñoz's 1982 Topps rookie card across every full grade it issues, and exactly 42 of them came back Gem Mint 10. The slab pictured is one of the forty-two — cert 81783861. ...

Card of the Day Football PSA Vintage Rookie Card

CASE #0281 Misdemeanor

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August 21, 2026

A Grading Channel Says PSA Turnaround Times Just Got Worse — Here's What the Backlog Record Shows

CARDBOARD POLICE NEO Cards & Comics posted this on August 20 under a blunt title: PSA turnaround times just got worse. That is the claim, and the channel makes its case in the video above. What this blog can add is the paper trail the claim lan...

Video of the Day PSA Grading Hobby Health

CASE #0269 Informational

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August 21, 2026

Convicted in January, Suing by March — the Anthony Curcio Case Didn't End With the Verdict

The jury came back in four hours. The case did not end there. Anthony Curcio was convicted in the Southern District of New York in January of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, for selling sports and Pokémon cards inside PSA slabs carryi...

Hobby Article PSA Lawsuits Grading Antitrust

CASE #0268 Felony

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A John Cena One-of-One Sold for $329,400 — and the Three Biggest Wrestling-Card Sales on Record Are Graded 7, 8 and 9

Sports Card Investor Graded the Same Cards at PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC — and PSA and CGC Do Not Publish the Same Top Grade

The 1951 Photograph Behind the 1952 Topps Mantle Sold for $3 Million — the Card It Produced Still Has Only Three PSA 10s

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

PSA Opens a $59.99 Standard Tier on September 14 — and Its Own Reopening Target Is Still 4.9 Million Cards Away

1935 National Chicle #34 Bronko Nagurski — 187 Graded, One Mint 9, and Not a Single 10

PSA Extends Its Turnaround Times Again — and This Time the Company Said So — Video of the Day

1982 Topps #51 Anthony Muñoz All-Pro RC — 42 Gems From 2,359, and the Same Gem Rate as Lawrence Taylor

A Grading Channel Says PSA Turnaround Times Just Got Worse — Here's What the Backlog Record Shows

Convicted in January, Suing by March — the Anthony Curcio Case Didn't End With the Verdict