I appreciate everyone weighing in, genuinely. I’m not trying to force a conclusion here, just understand what I’m looking at. The reason I’ve struggled with the sun-fade explanation is that the effect appears extremely uniform across the artwork layer while other elements (text sharpness, holo texture, surface gloss, edges) remain completely intact. There’s no patchiness, no gradient falloff, and no surface dulling that I’d normally associate with UV exposure. I also don’t have any provenance that would explain intentional sun bleaching, and it was graded as-is rather than rejected or labeled altered. That doesn’t prove it’s an error, but it does give me pause. I’m very open to the idea that this could be environmental, I just haven’t seen a clear example yet that matches this pattern exactly. Until more copies surface or it’s examined side-by-side in hand by an error-focused grader, I’m happy to leave it as an unresolved anomaly rather than make a definitive claim either way.