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Isn't it great when you learn that there is a variation or rare verison of a particular card that you never knww about, then you go to look at your personal colleiton and it turns out you have the rare one? I have had that happen a few times recently as I start to research variations and error cards. 

Nice! I had several errors in my duplicates box because I didn't know there was an error and correction version...my records just showed I had that card. 

So, just curious. What was the rate variation you found?

Error and variation collecting was the thing that brought me back to card collecting @ 25 yrs ago. THE SEARCH was on ! Going back thru all my "monsters" was so exciting, and what a collection of ERR/VAR/COR cards I built. Quite a rewarding experience.

So bbcards, I collect mostly superhero cards, so I'm not sure how much my finds will mean to most of the people on this site who tend to collect sports cards. However, I was very happy to find that I had the Toy Biz version of 1993 X-Men Series 2 Rictor, which could only be found by purchasing the action figures that came out at the same time as the retail card set. I also found I had the rarer version of the 1995 Fleer X-Men Sauron card which sells for about a dollar more than the regular one. These are minor variations, and you can't really tell you have them unless you know to look for them.

I hope yours doesnt' have tape damage. Several of mine do...I got them new, when I got the figures. 

That's definitely a problem wth cards that come from action figures, but the couple I have from that set are in pretty great condition, thankfully.

Nice! A few of mine from the release that came with the X-Men Ultra cards, the tape on them has made them permanently sticky and stuck in the pages I put them in back in the 1990s. When I tried to get all my cards out of pages about a decade ago, I couldn't get them to budge...didn't want to take the chance of damaging them any more than they already were.