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A grading company's intake floor with a sealed submission box paused on a conveyor belt under a handheld barcode scanner's active read line, several more sealed boxes queued behind it and a declared-value slip visible but still stapled shut on the nearest box's lid

A Population Report Counts Submissions. It Was Never a Census of the Cards That Survived.

PSA's population count for Base Set Unlimited Charizard #4 — 487 Gem Mint 10s among 101,739 submissions — is real and often quoted as a rarity signal. It cannot be one: a self-selected sample of paid submissions is not a census, no matter how large it grows.

By Brecht Corbeel · September 9, 2026 · 15 min read

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