What does the PSA qualifier "PD" mean?

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Posted By: Brueso

I got a copy of the 1963 Topps #18 Buc Blasters card depicting Roberto Clemente and some others. The card was a PSA 8 PD. It had production "snow" on its front that makes me amazed anyone could remotely consider grading the card an 8- I don't care if you can cut butter with the card's edges. Interestingly, I also got a PSA 6 of the same card in a different auction and it also had the production snow on the front, but without any subgrade.

Related rant: I HATE it when a seller puts a scan in their auction that you can't enlarge to check for these kind of things before bidding. There was of course, nothing in the description of either auction to mention the production snow- just a one line comment of what the cards were graded. I resold the PSA 6 and mentioned the snow, and I feel like its necessary to mention it when I resell the PSA 8, too- of course, that means I end up getting less than what I paid for them.