Question: Is there a gold variety of 1994 SP #15 Alex Rodriguez Foil?

smittias

I was looking though a stack of Arod SP rookie cards and noticed that there was one gold foil card in a sea of bronze foil cards. See the attached photo. The card on the left, has a gold oval at the bottom, Arod's name is written in gold, and the SP logo is in gold. I can't find any reference to a gold variety anywhere so figured I'd post here and see if anyone knows anything about this.

DotStore

Looks like a misprint where that bronze (darker) overlay is missing. The pictures are hard to tell, but just above the "S" in the "SP" logo, it appears to have some of the bronze overlay?

smittias

Thanks for your reply. Yes, right above the "S" is a small bronze triangle. That is the only bronze on the card. And as you can see, Alex's skin tone is quite different on the two cards as well, so your explanation makes sense.

Next question maybe someone can help me with...if I sent this in for grading, would PSA:

1) Grade it with no reference to the variation/misprint
2) Grade it and reference the variation/misprint
3) return it as an ungrade-able factory misprint

saucywombat

If you mentioned it in the submission then #3 is most likely.

If you said nothing and submitted it as a standard card then near 100% chance of #1.

doubledragon

It's one heck of a card. I've never seen it before. Thanks for posting it.

ErrorCardHunter

Here is another copy of the gold foil error card. Please post if you have a copy of this card I'm trying to figure out how many might be out there? I just bought another one so for now I know of 3 copies of this gold foil version. Trying get more answers about this card. Anyone with any sort of information or thoughts on this please reply!

Thanks

junkwaxgems

Not common but happens with SP foil cards. See the 1995 Championship Jeter and Nomo "Golds" for example. It is a print flaw in the foiling. Cool cards but not an unknown/unannounced parallel.

craig44

while not common, some cards have been known to have foil color "variations" one that comes to mind is the 97 E-X hall or nothing set. it comes in both a Bronze tone and a gold tone with no announced variation. I think sometimes the printers ran out of a certain color foil and replaced with another.

craig44

there are also some 92 topps gold foil cards that came with silver foil. they are pretty rare.