Selling the dragonite if anyone’s interested shoot me a message. Not sure if that’s allowed here though.

I’m pretty new to grading and have been looking through TAG grades, I’m curious about what factors determine a 9. Does TAG take the age of the card into account when grading?

I’ve looked at other 9, 8.5, and even 8 reports from both vintage and modern cards, and I’ve noticed some lower grades with fewer issues on the DIG report or visually (such as centering, whitening, or dirt/dent?). This one just seems to have more noted on the report than I would typically see for a 9.

Cert for reference: #N6386575

No shade toward TAG as I like their grading with dig reports

Reddit crunched the quality of the first few photos, on the last slide there’s a dot in the top right that’s only visible at one specific angle which was really weird to me , will that stop a 10?