Leave it to SDC to find the answer! Nice sleuthing, as usual.
As for the Gold parallel - if you notice, from the images here, the background where it is green on the Schilling cards would be gold on the parallel. So, that is why it couldn't be the gold. And the gold foil is present on the base cards.
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