Card Identification Forum

Same front image as #292 Isaiah Rider, gold foil and back align with PJ Brown.

ETA: Sorry for the image quality, looks like it's time to dust the scanner yet again.

A fairly rare printing error. Not documented here. I specifically collect NBA errors, with several hundred in my collection, but I only have two mis-matched front-to-back cards.

What I find interesting about this one is that it's not a simple case of back of one card, front of another. The name, team, position, and 2nd round draft status on the front are from Brown's card, but the colors and picture on the front are from Rider's. Pretty cool in my book.

Simply the foil stamping on the front corresponds to the correct back, but got the wrong front printed, as the colors of the name and team plate underneath matches off with Rider, not Brown.

Yeah, I've seen wrong foil issues plague certain sets (09-10 UD Bkb, 07 D Classics FB), but not wrong fronts w/correct foil. I'd love to see an uncut sheet for this set to figure out how it's even possible.

Since the backs on this set are angled differently than the front, my guess is somebody put in a sheet backwords, and there are examples of all of the cards on the sheet messed up like this.

For what it's worth, I show my complete collection on this post on Cardboard History. I miscounted, I have three.

Upside down sheet would have been my first guess as well (and an obvious misalignment causing the wrong front), but the card number on a regular Rider and this PJ one are both directly behind the front bottom right.

It's very easy.  The cards are printed in three basic steps.  Backs printed on sheet, fronts printed on sheet, foiling printed on sheets.  The foiling step relies on the sheets having correctly matched fronts and backs.  The foiling corresponds to the back of the card.

Misfed by orientation (upside-down) is one way.  Wrong sheets being fed is another way.

And a view of uncut sheets could confirm PJ Brown and Isaiah Rider are in the exact same position on separate sheets to explain how this one happened.  If they aren't, then the sheet layout was changed and they didn't swap front/back layouts simultaneously.