Question on Topps Gold/Parallel Baseball sets

dcaudle70

I know Topps started making them in 1992 and actually had a regular version and a "gold winner" version due to the redemption cards being easy to see through and win. I know they had a gold set in 1993 and 1994 but after that I lost track. I know this year in 2010 they have the parallel numbered to 2010 which I consider to be similar to the gold cards from back in the 92-94 years. My question is has Topps base set always included one or the other in the years I am not sure about, 1995-2009? If you know also could you tell me when they started numbering them to 2010 like they did this year? I assume last year was numbered to 2009 and so forth going back but what year did they start numbering them and prior to that did they still have the gold issue unnumbered? Thanks for the help, collector here who took a long break from collecting Topps sets and it just seems way too easy to simply collect a base set from these years.

brumbach

You are correct, Topps did gold parallels for 1992, 1993, and 1994, then stopped. These were not serial numbered. They restarted the gold parallels again in 2001 for the 50th anniversary with serial #/2001. There are also black parallels #/51. The golds in 2002 were #/2002 and black #/52, and so on going forward. I think they also added Copper or something back in 2008 or 2009 but I'm not sure about those.

dcaudle70

Thanks for the info, so for the base Topps sets from 1995-2000 there is no rarer parralel version to collect?

jacksoncoupage

<< <i>Thanks for the info, so for the base Topps sets from 1995-2000 there is no rarer parralel version to collect? >>



1995 Topps has a partial-parallel set, called Spectralite. I believe they were inserted 1 per pack.

1996 Topps does not have any actual pack-inserted parallels but a partial-parallel set called Team Topps exist for a handful of teams such as the Yankees, Indians and White Sox.

1997 Topps has no parallel set.

1998 Topps has a parallel set called Minted In Cooperstown. I believe they were inserted 1:4 or 1:6 (?).

1999 Topps has a parallel set called MVP Promotion. Unnumbered cards with announced print run of 100 copies each. Contest.

2000 Topps same as 1999.