Card Identification Forum

Looking for clearification on the difference between the standard issue of this card and the Holofoil issue. I thought I read a few years back that the standard issue had a grey background where the wording Chasing History is and the one classified as a Holofoil had a white background like the one in the scan. The other thing I noticed is that it is hard to tell the difference in a scan compared to looking at the actual card.

I have several of these (regular, silver holo, gold holo). Unfortunately, I don't have them in front of me. But, from what I can recall, the backs were identical (maybe the extremely small print serial number differs, but I doubt it). I could be mistaken, it has been a while since I did anything with these cards.

I never heard about the white or the grey background but judging from the first card in the set of Roy Halladay (its the first card with both versions), it appears to be true.  This card is a holofoil I usually could tell because the background of the photo was usually shinier or foiled.  I think the ones I got were all usually the silver ones so not sure how the gold ones differed.

P.S. not a new member, I'm just using a second account for a bit to sort some cards without combining collections.  My other account is jupiterhill.

The holofoil parallel has a rainbow tinted reflection like a Chrome Refractor. It's basicaly a refractor for a non chrome card. Here are all 3 Mattinglys, the Holofoil is on the bottom. The gold just has a different border.

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