2013-14 SP Authentic Basketball Forum

Anyone know if there is any way to differentiate between duplicate letters?  For instance A.C. Green has OREGON STATE all serial numbered individually out of /35 (cardboard connection indicates #/385 so 35 x 11 matches up).  Checking the Os I can find on ebay and comc they all look the same.

I also notice that some of the lazy photo uploaders have just uploaded identical photos for the duplicated letters.

I know others on here have a lot of experience working on those types of sets and I'm wondering if we've ever had any where the duplicate letters with the same card numbers could be differentiated. I've always assumed duplicate letters just had twice or 3x the print run of the singular letters, but instruction from Admin was to create spots for each individual letter anyway.

Each set is different from what I've seen. In some cases, if the letters were SN35 for each, and a letter was in the word or phrase twice, it would be SN70. Three times, then SN105. In other cases, one can find two copies of the same letter with the same serial number (e.g., two letter O's with 23/35). Some sets serialize the whole run for the one player (as in, if the last name to be spelled was "WOOD", and 25 copies of each, the cards would be SN100). Then they have the "W" with SN1/100, 5/100, 9/100, etc. The first "O" would be 2/100, 6/100, etc., Second "O" would be 3/100, 7/100, etc., and the "D" would be 4/100, 8/100, etc. So the only way you'd know "which O" you had was from the first number in the SN. There may have been other numbering scenarios for these, but those are the 3 types that I can remember seeing and dealing with.