What makes the card a Venezuelan?

Mickey71

I just viewed a 1966 Mantle on EBAY and it's a PSA 3. No where on the card is there anything. I'm not very familiar with this issue. Any info? Thanks in advance.

fkw

The SCD says.....

#1-#370 only, darker cardboard, no gloss on front, back is more bright orange-pink.

earlycalguy

cardstock is also very thin

earlycalguy

also, a 3 is a pretty high grade for the issue. most were placed into albums and have back damage

cardexpert1980

this issue is very hard to find in good condition. if anything higher then an 8 of a super star player such as mantle ,mays clemente every comes in auction look out we might see another 100k card

Carew29

Here ya go

cardexpert1980

yeah imagin if a PSA 8 or 9 of this card came to surface you could take a couple years off and not work

rbeaton

The first 370 cards of Topps' 1966 baseball set were reprinted for sale in the Venezuelan market. Identical in design to the Topps cards, as they have no Spanish on them. The South American version is printed on darker cardboard that has virtually no gloss on front and bright orange-pink highlights on back. Low-grade cards are the norm for this and other Venezuelan issues as it is common collector practice south of the border to mount cards into scrapbooks and albums.

Pictured below is a comparison of the three different versions of Jim Palmer's 1966 rookie card. They include the O-Pee-Chee (top) which is differentiated by the "PTD. IN CANADA", the regular Topps issue (middle) and the Venezuelan Topps (bottom). The Venezuelan is differentiated from the regular Topps version by the poor card stock with no gloss on the front, and deeper orange color on the reverse.



Robert