What makes the card a Venezuelan?

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• fkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭

  May 26, 2010 1:17PM

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

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• earlycalguy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭

  May 26, 2010 1:39PM

  
  
  cardstock is also very thin

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• earlycalguy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭

  May 26, 2010 1:40PM

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

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• cardexpert1980 Posts: 32

  May 26, 2010 3:43PM

  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

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• Carew29 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭

  May 26, 2010 3:57PM

  
  
  Here ya go

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• cardexpert1980 Posts: 32

  May 26, 2010 4:11PM

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

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• rbeaton Posts: 631 ✭

  May 26, 2010 10:02PM

  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

  Looking for:
  Any high grade OPC Jim Palmer
  High grade Redskins (pre 1980)

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