I just bought this 1964 Topps Giants Mickey Mantle graded PSA 8 (PD)...
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...and I can't for the life of me figure out what the PD refers to. I've looked this Mick over a thousand times in the clear California sunlight and still have no idea what the fine folks at PSA were thinking. (My scanner doesn't have that graded card component, so the pics aren't clear as day, but they should be adequate enough.) The white mark on his hat brim is on every one of these cards, so it's not that, and the back is perfectly clean. On extremely close examination, there are a few tiny bits of snow to the upper right of his hat, a couple next to his Adam's apple and to the right of his shoulder. Any and all of the snow really only comes through in the scan. In reality (without the power of the scanner) they are virtually non-existent. Could those be the 'problem'? To say they are unnoticeable is the understatement of the century, but I am at a complete loss. I truly believe the graders struck out on this one.
Help!! Does anyone see something that I'm missing???
Anyone???
Bueller???