PSA is very inconsistent with grading these for sure. I have many that would be classified as ad obscured that were marked as blacked out.
I would tend to say that if the Marlboro words are legible (usually with only a lighter red tinting), PSA usually will call it Marlboro Ad on Scoreboard, especially if there is no dark red box covering the ad.
Any green tints/scribbles usually seem to be labeled Marlboro Ad Obscured, and if it stands out clearly to PSA, a dark green box covering the ad will also get this same label.
This is similar to all the Ripken varieties, PSA does not seem to want to identify all the different varieties, and only identifies 5 different, whiteout, white scribble, black box, black scribble and FF.
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