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According to my 2011 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards: in the June 2002 issue of Beckett Baseball Monthly a sample Elite Series card was rubber-cemented inside. The cards differ from the the issued version only in the appearance on the back of a (usually) silver-foil "SAMPLE" notation. Some cards were produced with the overprint in gold-foil, in much more limited quantities. Cards #1-100 from this set can be found in this sample version. 

I told you all that hoping someone would create a samples checklist.  I guess there should actually be 2, one silver and one gold. I received the, silver, Carlos Beltran (#52) in the mail yesterday and would love to record it in my collection.

Thanks!

They were randomly inserted into Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. The set parallels the first 100 cards in the base set and each card has the word "SAMPLE" printed in silver colored foil on the back. One out of every ten Sample cards is stamped in Gold foil.

You're right, they're not listed in the database. It'll require two checklists which are a duplicate of cards #1-100 from the base set. One for the silver foil version and one for the gold foil version.

Send a message to Admin, they can probably accomplish this much quicker.